Aberdeen board adopts personnel-policy changes and reviews FY 2024–25 draft budget
May 13, 2024 | Aberdeen Town, Moore County, North Carolina
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The Aberdeen Town Board approved a resolution updating the town’s personnel policy and reviewed a draft FY 2024–25 budget at its May work session. The personnel changes were adopted by motion and carried by voice vote.
Town Manager Paul presented the draft budget and told the board the package “we feel really good about the whole package this year,” noting that final workers-compensation and property-liability numbers were still pending but would be folded into the final documents before the formal budget hearing scheduled for May 28. He said the draft assumes conservative increases for several insurance items and that capital requests from department heads are largely accommodated.
Separately, the board approved Resolution 24-311, which makes three personnel-policy changes. First, new employees’ vacation accrual will increase from 40 hours per year to 80 hours per year (roughly 3.1 hours per pay period under the proposed schedule); employees who separate with less than one year of service will not receive a payout for accrued vacation under the new provision. Second, the town raised the annual tuition-assistance cap from $1,000 to $2,500 per fiscal year; the assistance is restricted to job‑relevant coursework and requires preapproval. Third, the town converted a flat longevity-pay schedule to a percentage-of-salary scale with a $5,000 cap to better align with regional practice and to help lower-paid positions benefit earlier in their service.
Town staff said the personnel changes were budgeted in the draft and that anticipated savings from a lower-than-expected workers-comp renewal would largely offset the added costs. No roll-call vote counts were recorded in the public transcript; the minutes show the motions were seconded and carried with board members responding “all in favor.”
The board set a schedule to incorporate final insurance figures and circulate a final budget packet to commissioners ahead of the May 28 hearing.
Town Manager Paul presented the draft budget and told the board the package “we feel really good about the whole package this year,” noting that final workers-compensation and property-liability numbers were still pending but would be folded into the final documents before the formal budget hearing scheduled for May 28. He said the draft assumes conservative increases for several insurance items and that capital requests from department heads are largely accommodated.
Separately, the board approved Resolution 24-311, which makes three personnel-policy changes. First, new employees’ vacation accrual will increase from 40 hours per year to 80 hours per year (roughly 3.1 hours per pay period under the proposed schedule); employees who separate with less than one year of service will not receive a payout for accrued vacation under the new provision. Second, the town raised the annual tuition-assistance cap from $1,000 to $2,500 per fiscal year; the assistance is restricted to job‑relevant coursework and requires preapproval. Third, the town converted a flat longevity-pay schedule to a percentage-of-salary scale with a $5,000 cap to better align with regional practice and to help lower-paid positions benefit earlier in their service.
Town staff said the personnel changes were budgeted in the draft and that anticipated savings from a lower-than-expected workers-comp renewal would largely offset the added costs. No roll-call vote counts were recorded in the public transcript; the minutes show the motions were seconded and carried with board members responding “all in favor.”
The board set a schedule to incorporate final insurance figures and circulate a final budget packet to commissioners ahead of the May 28 hearing.
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