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Ogdensburg approves temporary stipend for DPW worker covering assistant duties
Summary
The council approved a $1,500 monthly stipend for Jacob Brush for up to two months, to compensate him for performing assistant-supervisor duties in the Department of Public Works; the measure passed on a 5–1 roll call and will be revisited before a third month.
During public session Jacob Brush asked council for a stipend to compensate him for performing many assistant-supervisor duties in the Department of Public Works after the assistant supervisor left. Council members discussed an unassigned budget line-item stipend of $3,000 and the practical staffing constraints in DPW. Councilman Gandarinho moved to approve $1,500 per month for Brush for the next two months, with a council review before any extension; the motion passed with Yeas: Ciasullo, Cowdrick, DeMeo, Gandarinho, Lame and Nay: Ruitenberg.
Council members praised Brush’s work; the minutes record that the stipend may be revisited earlier than two months if needed. No formal employment reclassification or permanent salary change was adopted at the meeting; the action was a short-term compensation decision recorded in the minutes.
