Employees employed by the City of Plymouth may be getting a pay raise after all in 2021.
Mayor Mark Senter said during last week’s Plymouth City Council meeting that the council faced a lot of unknowns with finances due to COVID-19 which led the council to forego any employee raises in 2021 when the budget was approved last fall. Councilman Don Ecker, Jr., who was involved in a sub-committee with Councilman Robert Listenberger to review that option with a clearer financial view, made a proposal to the council.
Ecker stated, “We were watching what was going on in 2021 with the department heads managing the budgets and the clerk-treasurer watching the dollars and cents. We’ve been operating under budget and still accomplishing a lot of things. We need to do something because the employees have been working very hard, controlling overtime the best they can, in addition to continuing to be proficient in what they’re doing. Combine that with the cost of living that has gone on with inflation, I felt it was important that we try to do something for our employees effective July 1.”
The council members held the first reading of the ordinance that fixes salaries of appointed officers and employees, fire, and police personnel for 2021. The second and third readings will be presented during the council’s next meeting on June 14.
