From the Northwest Indiana Times:
Full-time municipal employees will receive a pay raise.
The Highland Town Council has agreed unanimously to grant a 4 percent increase retroactive to Jan. 8.
It is the first raises since 2008 because of the property tax freeze the state imposed on Lake County in 2007, Clerk-Treasurer Michael Griffin said.
"It was a confluence of things" that was three years in the making, he said.
Without causing a major effect on town services, the council has been trimming costs wherever possible to help arrange the pay increases, Griffin said.
That, combined with new revenue from a business that rents an electric sign on a town water tower, made the raises possible, he said.
The councilmen noted the raises do not include their own salaries.
The raise does include Griffin, but does not take effect until next year, board members said.
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http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/highland/highland-grants-raise-to-municipal-employees/article_4a2f978e-a010-5e86-9727-d9e8435ff376.html
