The Metro Council at its meeting tonight will ask Mayor Kip Holden’s administration for an update on its plan to give Department of Public Works employees a pay raise. Councilwoman Donna Collins-Lewis says she will formally request a status report tonight, though the council will not discuss the matter until its March 11 meeting.
During budget negotiations late last year, several council members made a failed effort to secure DPW pay raises. At the time, the administration said there wasn’t enough money in the 2015 budget for the raises. However, the administration agreed to study the issue and said it hoped to present a plan by the end of the first quarter of 2015, Collins-Lewis says.
“We think by mid-March they should have something,” she says, adding that DPW employees are underpaid, overworked and deserve a raise.
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