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No Raises for Plymouth Township's Elected Officials

The compensation commission didn't meet this year, so that means salaries are frozen this year and next.

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PLYMOUTH, MI – Plymouth Township’s compensation commission, which some officials want to abolish entirely, didn’t meet last year, so officials won’t be getting pay boosts this year or next.

That means officials’ salaries will remain at current levels:

  • Supervisor Shannon Price: $111,384 (full-time position)
  • Clerk Nancy Conzelman: $104,959 (full-time position)
  • Treasurer Ron Edwards: $104,959 (full-time position)
  • Trustees Mike Kelly, Bob Doroshewitz and Steve Mann: $11,921 (part-time positions)

The Board of Trustees kicked around the idea of getting rid of a five-member commission that makes recommendations on township officials pay, and setting their own salaries.

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The commission should have met in December to make recommendations for 2016 and 2017 salaries, but Price told The Plymouth Observer that didn’t happen due to a scheduling conflict.

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The commission, which is short two members, doesn’t face any repercussions for not meeting, Price said. The law governing it says recommendations may be made in odd-numbered years only. When the commission does make recommendations, they are binding unless overturned by a two-thirds majority of the Board of Trustees.

Kelly, who cast a lone vote against adopting the salary commission’s recommendations in 2013, wants to abolish the commission, but acknowledged doing so would “open a can of worms as to how we get raises.”

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