Common Council Votes 13-0 To Keep Alderperson Salary Unchanged For 2025 Term – Alderperson Katie Van Zeeland Provides Info Packet With Salary Comparisons And Inflation Information With The Hope Of Prompting More Robust Conversation Next Year

The Common Council met 11/15/2023. The meeting was on the shorter side at only 30 minutes, about half of it was taken up with a reconsideration of Alderperson salaries for the 2025 aldermanic term. The Council ended up voting 13-0 to approve no increase or […]

Common Council Fails To Make Changes To Aldermanic Salary For 2025 Term – Alderperson Denise Fenton Indicates She Will Ask To Reconsider Item At 11/08/2023 Council Meeting

The Common Council met 11/01/2023. Almost an hour of the meeting was spent discussing and voting on the aldermanic salary for the 2025 term. Due to state statute, the Council has to set compensation for alderpersons prior to December 1st, 2 years ahead of time. […]

Human Resources And Information Technology Committee Votes To Recommend No Increase To Alderperson Salary For 2025

The Human Resources and Information Technology Committee met 10/25/2023. One of the items it took up was the Aldermanic salary for the term starting in April of 2025. Due to a state statute forbidding elected officials from voting on their own salary as well as […]

Human Resources And Information Technology Committee Meeting 10/25/2023 – Will Review 2024 Budgets, Vote On 2025 Aldermanic Salaries

The Human Resources and Information Technology Committee is meeting 10/25/2023 at 4:30PM. They will be voting on two action items. The first is a request to approve the Valley Transit Teamsters contract for 2024-2026. The second is a request to approve alderpersons salaries for 2025. […]

Human Resources And Information Technology Committee Approves Salary Increases For Mayor And City Attorney

The Human Resources and Information Technology Committee met 10/11/2023. During that meeting they voted on salary increases for the positions of the City Attorney and the Mayor for the 2024 term. Both of these positions are elected positions and their 4-year terms begin May 1, […]

Human Resources And Information Technology Committee Approves Slight Compensation Increase For Police Lieutenants And Captains Who Pick Up Additional Duties, Reviews Change To Fringe Benefit Policy, Receives Update On Recruitment Efforts For Various Open Positions

The Human Resources and Information Technology Committee met 05/24/2023. The meeting was on the shorter side at only 15 minutes, and they had only one action item and then a couple information items. I’ve prepared a complete transcript of the meeting for download. The action […]

Common Council Meets Briefly – Votes To Keep 2024 Aldermanic Salary Unchanged, Approves Special Use Permit For Holiday Gas Station And Car Wash On Calumet Street

The Common Council met 11/16/2022. It was a very brief meeting with only two items separated out. The first was the special use permit for the Holiday Gas station and carwash on the corner of Calumet and Schaefer Street that had been discussed and approved […]

Common Council Votes Down Amendment To Reduce City Employee Pay Raise From 5% To 4%

The Common Council met 11/09/2022 and adopted the 2023 Executive Budget. They made no changes to the budget during the meeting; however, four amendments were offered all of which were voted down. The first amendment was a proposal to reduce the aldermanic parking pass benefit […]

Human Resources And Information Technology Committee Meeting 11/16/2022 – Will Vote On Proposal To Eliminate Aldermanic Parking Pass Benefit And Increase Salary By 7.1% For 2024

The Human Resource and Information Technology Committee is holding a special session 11/16/2022 at 6:15PM. They will be voting on the alderperson salary for 2024. Specifically, they will be considering and voting on an amendment that was made by Alderperson Vered Meltzer (District 2) during […]

Common Council Votes 12-2 To Deny Budget Amendment To Reduce Aldermanic Parking Pass Benefit – Alderpersons Talk About The Value Of The Parking Pass Benefit

The Common Council met 11/09/2022 in a special session to adopt the 2023 Executive Budget. The Council ended up approving the 2023 budget with no amendments by a 14-0 vote. Although no amendments were approved, four amendments were made and deliberated on. The first amendment […]