OCEAN CITY – Ocean City employees are slated to receive a $1,000 bonus in July, but the Mayor and Council had some initial differences of opinion to work through before making that decision.
Last Friday during a budget session, Councilman Joe Hall unexpectedly proposed to give municipal employees a $500 bonus on July 1.
“Clearly, what the staff has been able to do in being responsible and bringing forward a responsible budget, I would like to suggest that we give a $500 cost-of-living bonus in this year’s budget across the board for our full-time, vested employees,” Joe Hall said at that time. “I think this would show appreciation from the council and property owners of the town that they have heard our message and have stepped up to the plate over the last couple years and kept our services maintained and our town fun, clean and safe.”
Joe Hall reminded his colleagues his proposal would amount to an approximately $250,000 line item in the budget and although his proposal received approval by a few members, it met resistance by others thinking that the employees deserved more.
And getting ready to raise taxes because not enough money to pay bills!
ReplyDeleteI hope this placates the whiners now. Maybe this "pacifier" will shut the babies up.
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