Monday, October 15, 2012 - 5:17pm
Mayor says city pay hike a no-go, for now
Updated Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 5:17am
Hours after proposing a one-time pay hike for City of Wilmington employees, Mayor Baker says he's putting it off, due to a procedural problem.
In a statement issued late Monday afternoon, Baker said the city's Law Department and Budget Office couldn't fill out the paperwork needed to implement the one-time salary boost in time for a meeting of City Council's Finance Committee.
The mayor's plan calls for non-union city workers to get their payment November second, and union workers whose leadership didn't reject the one-time payment as of October 25th to be paid November 9th.
The most any worker could get is $2,000, or four $500 payments--one for each year that worker didn't get a cost-of-living increase.
Baker says the pay increase will cost $2 million and be paid for with money from the city's unassigned fund balance.
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