SALISBURY — A number of cost reduction efforts and revenue boosts were examined by the Salisbury City Council this week with the goal of finding a way to fund a city-wide employee pay increase.
City administration was able to put together a plan that would cover the pay increases, though members of the council questioned whether some were necessary or possibly even damaging to the relationship between Salisbury and Wicomico County.
There may have been some dispute over how pay raises would be financed, but there was unanimous agreement from Mayor Jim Ireton and the council members at Monday’s work session that an increase is a necessity.
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Actually, no disagreement over how pay raises would be funded. If you watched/listened you would see that Mr. Ireton and his boy Mr. Cordrey asked that the pay raises be funded PLUS an additional 100% (double) funding to go into surplus by cancelling the Council-approved Riverwalk and by usurping the County's fire inspection program. Mr. Day said no to both. All other Council members seemed to go along with Mr. Day. I hope they do when the vote comes. What a waste of money that would be!
Give them a 1% pay raise just like the teachers did!
"or possibly even damaging to the relationship between Salisbury and Wicomico County."
Can someone explain what the county has to do with it. They don't work for the county.
Ireton proves once again that he is an idiot.
I hope Rick Hoppes gets his long deserved overdue pay raise. He his the hardest worker and most deserving in the entire city.
Put the citizens first.
Wow why don't we see off the city including the old fire house for practically nothing? Then we can have all our contributing friends happy and use the money we made to pay for the action and blame it on the city council.
Sorry that was apparently what a political reelection speech really said
Give them there raise ...LONG. overdue for the guys...and No I don't work for Salisbury ...but I do pay property taxes and a happy Employee is a productive Employee...Haggis
To 553, If the city off the money included the old firehouse used the money that blamed the council for the firehouse, why is there a need to politically re-elect the speech people? I mean, isn't the contributing friends money paid to be happy for being speech?
Its all taxpayer money and all they get paid now and all they will get paid in the future is taxpayer money. That being said I'm sure some city workers are underpaid and some are overpaid but you have to put your trust in someone to decide which is which. Salisbury made that decision and will have to live with it and the taxes that go along with it. Good luck to them.
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Actually, no disagreement over how pay raises would be funded. If you watched/listened you would see that Mr. Ireton and his boy Mr. Cordrey asked that the pay raises be funded PLUS an additional 100% (double) funding to go into surplus by cancelling the Council-approved Riverwalk and by usurping the County's fire inspection program. Mr. Day said no to both. All other Council members seemed to go along with Mr. Day. I hope they do when the vote comes. What a waste of money that would be!
October 11, 2013 at 3:35 PM
What do you mean "usurping the County's fire inspection program."
Doesn't the city have their own?
If they sold the old fire house for $750,000 it would have helped pay for the raises. Why does the city keep giving things away to their contributing buddies and then rape I mean tax the tax payers for more money?
Rick Hoppes usurped the Cities fire inspection program by firing it's Inspections Captain.
Off the heals of all of the public outcry in the overpaid city salaries, the actually are talking about raises? to compete with other cities, to keep pace? If any city employee wants to leave their currently attractive salary, health care, and other goodies, they should take the real risk in life in the private sector. Where real talent is rewarded for real work!
Salisbury is dying and the pace to total death is picking up every day.
7:54 What in the actual F- did I just read. Do you even English?
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7:54 What in the actual F- did I just read. Do you even English?
October 13, 2013 at 8:59 AM
HUH???
To 859 am, please re- read 555's incoherent comment. I was just trying to sarcastically respond to their incomprehensible comment with another. It'd called "sarcasm" in some circles. Obviously, you are not in a circle who understands sarcasm...
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