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Hague debate centers on pay scale as board hires transfer station attendants at $20/hour
Summary
Board approved hiring transfer-station attendants at $20/hour while public commenters and board members urged consistent pay scales and protections for long-serving employees; motions to hire were amended and passed during the meeting.
Board members discussed town pay practices before moving to hire transfer-station attendants. The chair proposed hiring Brandon and Shane Fraser and earlier referenced hiring Brandy Lynn Frazier; the final motion amended the earlier motion and included language about a potential increase after a 90-day performance review.
"I'm fully in favor of the $20 an hour, but I think we should, rectify the thing that I brought up about the other employee," the chair said, noting concerns about pay parity for long-serving staff. Public commenters and board members pressed for a consistent handbook-based pay scale rather than ad-hoc raises at individual meetings. One commenter asked whether the town had set pay scales and argued that raises should be justified by comparative analysis.
A motion to hire transfer station attendants was moved and seconded and advanced during the meeting; the motion language included the $20 hourly starting rate and a 90-day review for potential increase. The meeting recorded approvals by voice vote for related personnel items; individual roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript.
