Elected officials salary ordinance has first reading

PLYMOUTH — It was a relatively short meeting for the Plymouth Common Council on Monday night.

The council was presented with the first reading of Ordinance 2021-2183, which is an ordinance adjusting the salary’s of elected officials.

Clerk-treasurer Jeanine Xaver explained that it is proposed to increase the mayor’s salary by 7.5%, the clerk-treasurer salary by 4.5%, and the members of the Common Council by 3%.

If passed, the Mayor’s

position would total $67,592.88 per year, the Clerk-treasurer’s position would total $68,220.72 per year, and Common Council members would receive $9,222.48 per year.

The council approved the acceptance of the following donations: $500 from Hoosier Racing Tire for the Latino Festival. Four businesses donated $1,000 each for the Mayor’s Month of Music totaling $4,000. Those companies were Indiana Wheel Company, E&B Paving, Marshall County Convention Visitor’s Bureau, and Zentis North America.

Xaver passed out a newspaper article from the weekend edition of The Pilot News titled “Last year’s recession hits Indiana local governments in 2022” written by Purdue University Agricultural Economist Larry Deboer.

Xaver summarized the article, “local governments will just see the effects of the pandemic in 2022 because of the lag in how taxes move forward to local government. So as I’ve said before, we haven’t seen the end of the last pandemic before going into the next one.”

She also stated that the 2022 Budget will be presented at the Sept. 13 meeting. The public hearing will be held on Sept. 27 meeting with the adoption voted on during the Oct. 11 meeting.

Mayor Mark Senter informed the council and those in attendance that the City of Plymouth has increased its population by 181 people since the 2010 Census. That would bring the population of the city to 10,214.

“It’s a step in the right direction,” the mayor said.