Delayed One Day Due to Holiday, City Council Meeting to Feature Light Agenda
By Julie Perine on May 25, 2018 via Connect-Bridgeport.com
In observance of Memorial Day, the second May meeting of Bridgeport City Council has been set for Tuesday, rather than Monday. The city’s governing body faces a light agenda.
After an invocation by the Rev. George Bramble of Bridgeport United Methodist Church, the pledge to the U.S. flag, approval of minutes from most recent business sessions and reports by Mayor Andy Lang and City Manager Kim Haws, the city’s governing body will wrap up one item of unfinished business from the May 14 meeting.
A second and final reading of an ordinance establishing the grade/step salary schedule for city employees will take place. As established in the city’s $5.9 million budget for fiscal year 2018-19, approved last month, was an across-the-board 5.1 percent pay raise for city employees; a 4.1 percent increase in addition to the typical one percent “step” implemented annually.
Mayor Andy Lang said he’s happy about the salary increase and believes in treating quality employees fairly and giving them incentive to keep their hard work and talents at the City of Bridgeport..jpg)
“The labor market is competitive and we have a lot of good people down there,” said Mayor Andy 
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In new business, Council will approve Bridgeport Cemetery fund budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year.
That budget, Finance Director Monica Musgrave said, has decreased from last year’s by about $5,500.
“Our cemetery is operated solely on the revenues received from lot sales, monument sales and other cemetery revenue and approximately $130,000 that we receive from the Benedum Cemetery Trust,” she said. “This trust was set up many years ago by Michael Benedum for the operation of the cemetery. Therefore, the Cemetery budget is always very bare bone and does not include any large capital purchases or projects.”
The second and final line item on Tuesday’s agenda is General Fund Budget Revision No. 5.
"Budget Revision No. 5 is to appropriate one-time revenues that have been received during the current fiscal year," Musrave said. "These revenues are being considered to fund several capital purchases and projects that were not funded in the budget for next fiscal year."
The meeting at Bridgeport Municipal Building Council Chambers begins at 7 p.m. Prior to that, Council will meet for a 30-minute work session. In addition to potential other matters, Council will hear about and discuss one-time B&O tax revenue, Lang said.
