HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973 01-04 Maplewood Approves 4.5% Pay Hike for Employees DISPATCH Maplewood Approves 4. 5 %
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Across-the-board pay en between the top and "You can't convince under Greavu's proposal
hikes of 4.5 per cent for bottom of the pay scales. the guy making $20,000 a the employes at the top
Maplewood's adminis- "I don't like this," he year that he can live as "probably w o u 1 d lose
t r a t i v e and technical said. cheaply as the guy mak- ground."
staff were opposed last M a n a g e r Miller ing $10,000," Olmstead "They'd receive a
week by village council- warned that with Grea- replied. smaller percentage in-
man John Greavu. vu's approach, the vil- Councilman H a r a I d crease than the (rise in)
But the rest of the vil- lage would lose "top peo- Haugan suggested that cost of living," he corn-
lage c o u n c i l followed ple." mented.
V i l l a g e Manager Mi- "T h e y (Maplewood Mayor Les A x d a h l
c h a e 1 Miller's recom- employes) are going to said Greavu 's plan
mendation. The council start looking around for would "get us back into
approved the increases some other place to go," a corner."
4-1. he said.
"I am firmly opposed "I think the percen- The co u n c i 1 also
to (identical) p e r c e n- tage increase is inequit- o k a y e d pay increases
tage increases, particu- able." councilman Don that range from 4.2 to 4.5
larly right now when Olmstead told Greavu. per cent for public
this (wage) freeze is "But what you (pro- works department oper-
on,"Greavu announced. pose) is even more in- ating personnel.
Instead, he suggested equitable," he added. "If This time G r e a v u
that each employe, re- you give a $300 raise to joined with the rest of
gardless of his current every e m p 1 o y e, that the council to make the
wage, should get the doesn't a c h i e v e any vote unanimous,
same dollar-amount' greater equity." The council delayed
raise. G r e a v u said that action, at Miller's urg-
He proposed no specif- across-the-board dollar ing, on police depart-
ic amount. increases would be fair ment salaries.
With identical across- because commodities The manager said he
the-board percentage in- cost the same for the may submit a recom-
creases year after year, employes at the top or mendation at a council
the councilman argued, the bottom of the pay meeting tonight.
the gap continues to wid- scale.