The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dunwoody proposes pay raise for full-time employees, police
City looking at 3.1% boost for all 98 of its workers on payroll.
The city of Dunwoody is considering raising the salaries for its full-time employees, most of whom are police department offifficers and staff.
Du nwoody recently unveiled its proposed budget for fifiscal year 2020, predicting that both its revenues and costs will slightly increase.
The new funding will include $185,000 for a 3.1% pay raise for Dunwoody’s 98 full-time employees, 77 of whom are in the police department.
Many other people who work for the city are contracted employees, and the raise does not apply to them.
The budget would also allow the city to hire two additional offifficers.
More than $9.2 million is allocated to the police
department. That comes out to about 36% of the proposed General Fund budget.
“This shows the cit y ’s emphasis on keeping our community strong,” Mayor Denis Shortal said.
Several other area police departments, including Brookhaven, DeKalb County and Atlanta, have increased their offifficers’ pay over the last year.
The budget is expected to be approved by the end of October, after a series of public meetings at City Hall. There will be a budget committee meeting 9 a.m. Monday, and City Council meetings on Oct. 14 and 28.
Dunwoody also hopes to allocate millions toward infrastructure and transportation improvements, including $3.7 million for repaving, $1.4 million to improve the Chamblee Dunwoody Road at Spalding Drive intersection and $1 million to install a
sidewalk along Peeler Road. As for revenue, the city predicts it will take in $8 million in property taxes (the tax rate is remaining the same), $1.35 million from Municipal Court fines and $1 million from building permits.