Cloverdale council approves salary ordinance, PTO resolution

Adam Hull of the Cloverdale Police Department (left) and Stephen Caulkins of the Cloverdale Township Volunteer Fire Department (right) accept checks each for $15,700 from Mark Wingler Tuesday evening. The donations were made on behalf of the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce.

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CLOVERDALE — As it looks to wrap up 2021, the Cloverdale Town Council approved set wages and salaries for town leaders and employees, as well as paid time off (PTO), at its regular meeting Tuesday evening.

The council approved Ordinance 2021-9 establishing the wages and salaries of employees heading into 2022. With increases across the board compared to 2021, they are as follows:

• Town council members: $429.17 per month ($5,150 each); 33 percent out of the General Fund, 34 percent from the Water Fund and 35 percent from the Sewer Fund;

• Clerk-treasurer: $44,290 per year; 40 percent from the General Fund and 30 percent each from the Water and Sewer funds;

• Deputy clerk-treasurer: $19.44 per hour; 34 percent out of the General Fund and 33 percent out of both the Water and Sewer funds;

• Utilities clerk: $15 per hour; 50 percent from the Water Fund and 50 percent from the Sewer Fund;

• Part-time utilities clerk: $14.21 per hour (not to exceed 29 hours a week); 50 percent from the Water Fund and 50 percent from the Sewer Fund;

• Town marshal: $29.71 per hour; 100 percent from the General Fund;

• Police sergeant: $21.63 per hour; 100 percent from the General Fund;

• Deputy marshal: $20.67 per hour with a $0.25 shift differential; 100 percent from the General Fund;

• Deputy marshal 2: $19 per hour with a $0.25 shift differential; 100 percent from the General Fund;

• Part-time deputy marshal: $20 per hour (not to exceed 29 hours per week); 100 percent from the General Fund (reimbursed by the Putnam County Prosecutor’s Office);

• Evidence collections specialist: $19.95 per hour; 100 percent from the General Fund;

• SRO officer: $19 per hour; 100 percent from the General Fund (reimbursed by Cloverdale Schools up to $50,000);

• Town manager: $55,000 per year, with a $480 cell phone stipend and a take-home vehicle; 25 percent from the Motor Vehicle and Highway Fund and 37.5 percent each from the Water and Sewer funds;

• Wastewater operator: Contracted with UMAC; 100 percent from the Sewer Fund;

• Street foreman: $20 per hour, with a take-home vehicle; 90 percent from the Sewer Fund and 10 percent from the Motor Vehicle and Highway Fund;

• Water treatment manager: $25.50 per hour, with a take-home vehicle; 90 percent from the Water Fund and 10 percent from the Motor Vehicle and Highway Fund;

• Equipment operator foreman: $17.50 per hour; 75 percent from the Water Fund, 12.5 percent each from the Sewer and Motor Vehicle and Highway funds;

• Utility laborer: $15.75 per hour; 10 percent from the Motor Vehicle and Highway Fund and 45 percent each from the Water and Sewer funds.

• Part-time/seasonal contractors: $15 per hour (not to exceed 29 hours per week); 45 percent from both the Water and Sewer funds and 10 percent from the Motor Vehicle and Highway Fund.

The ordinance stipulates that town employees are eligible for overtime at 1.5 times the hourly rate. Overtime and compensation time for the Cloverdale Police Department will be paid 100 percent out of the Public Safety Local Option Income Tax (LOIT) Fund.

The council waived a second reading of the ordinance.

Meanwhile, the council also passed Resolution 2021-13, which aims to ensure consistency among the town’s employees with regard to how PTO is accrued by Cloverdale employees.

The following is provided in the resolution in terms of years of service and PTO days earned:

• After 90 days: Five days, or 40 hours;

• After one year: 15 days, or 120 hours;

• After two-five years: 20 days, or 160 hours;

• After six-10 years: 25 days, or 200 hours;

• After 11-20 years: 30 days, or 240 hours;

• After 21 years: 35 days, or 300 hours.

The resolution also stipulates that full-time Cloverdale police officers will be given the equivalent of eight hours per town holiday beginning Jan. 1. Officers hired afterward will receive prorated hours with the holidays left in the year.

In other business:

• Town Manager Jason Hartman announced that Bobbi Siddons had recently resigned as Cloverdale’s utility clerk and took another job. He added that the town was searching for a replacement.

• The council approved both the town’s holiday as well as meeting schedules for 2022. The council is expected to regularly meet on the second Tuesday of the month unless otherwise noted.

• The council approved a revision to the Cloverdale Police Department’s standard operating procedures (SOPs) concerning reserve deputy marshals. New language provides that gear for them should be purchased by the department, but that CPD would retain it should one leave.

Mark Wingler also presented checks for $15,700 each to the Cloverdale Police Department and the Cloverdale Township Volunteer Fire Department on behalf of the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce.

Council Vice President Gary Bennington and member Cindy Holland were absent. Meanwhile, Deputy Clerk-Treasurer Rebekah Kelly, who filled in for Clerk-Treasurer Kelly Maners, Town Attorney Richard Shagley and Cloverdale Police Sgt. Adam Hull, who filled in for Town Marshal Steve Hibler, joined Hartman and the rest of the council.

The next regular meeting of the Cloverdale Town Council is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Cloverdale Town Hall.