BERLIN — The city council split over a new compensation package for City Manager James Wheeler Monday night with two councilors voting against it, though the package was approved.
Mayor Paul Grenier said the negotiated proposal provided for a one percent salary increase for both fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2021. The city manager’s current salary is $110,860 and Grenier said the total cost of the increase came to $3,466.
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