SAN BENITO — Most city employees might be seeing their pocketbooks fatten up.
In a meeting Tuesday, city commissioners are expected to consider giving nearly all employees 2.5 percent raises.
“I feel it’s well-deserved,” Mayor Celeste Sanchez said. “I wish we could give them more.”
Sanchez said commissioners have considered giving employees 2-percent to 2.5-percent raises, “depending on revenues.”
According to discussions in August, the city’s new $12.6 million general fund budget left a $178,000 surplus that would allow the city to fund the $158,000 salary package.
“It’s doable,” Sanchez said. “Our tax revenues have been very good. We have increased our businesses, people are shopping in San Benito and property values are up.”
Of the city’s 99 workers, raises would not go to six employees because they have reached their salary caps, Sanchez said.
She did not have information readily available on the names and titles of those six employees.
