Council to talk salaries, arbitration in executive session

Although City Council met with the city clerk, the city auditor and the Municipal Court clerk during an executive session on Tuesday, it took no action on their wages. Those items are on today’s executive session agenda again, but no action is likely. That’s because this week’s evaluation is just part one of a two-step process. Evaluations, salary and future plans are part of the second step, which will happen later in the year, at which time the three will find out if they are getting raises and if so, how much. The other item that appeared on Tuesday’s executive session agenda on today’s agenda is discussion about how to deal with arbitration with the Austin Firefighters Association over wages and benefits. The Austin Monitor has heard that there will be an item on next week’s agenda to try to resolve that particular conundrum.

 

This whisper has been changed to correct an assertion that the firefighter arbitration is not on the Thursday agenda. We regret the error.