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Ordinance amended to raise village president salary

By Kevin Boneske
Staff Writer

HOWARD – The person elected village president next year will be paid more than the municipal judge.

The board voted unanimously Monday, July 8, in favor of increasing the village president’s annual salary from the current $12,050 to $16,000, effective following next April’s election when village voters decide who will be their president for the next three-year term.

The ordinance amendment approved as part of the consent agenda will set the president’s monthly pay rate at $1,333.33 from the current $1,004.17 that has been in effect since April 2014.

Board members had discussed the pay hike at their June 24 meeting, when they compared the current salary to other municipalities in Wisconsin.

On Monday, they gave the increase final approval by amending the village code.

Trustees, whose current annual salaries of $6,025 ($502.83 per month) have also been in effect since April 2014, won’t be getting pay raises after next April’s spring general election.

Starting next April, the village president will be paid $250 a year more than the municipal judge, who is compensated with an annual salary of $15,750, or $1,312.50 per month.

Burt McIntyre, who was first elected village president in April 2008, is now in his fourth three-year term in that office after having previously been a village trustee.

The Village of Howard is in the process of seeking a new municipal judge with Gregg Schreiber, who has served in the position since 1999, moving out of the village this summer to the Fox Valley area and now acting as Howard’s judge with a reserve appointment.

Village Administrator Paul Evert said it will be up to the board to appoint a new municipal judge, who would serve until a special election next spring, when the winner would be elected to serve the remainder of the current term, which expires in April 2021 when the position would be up for a new four-year term.

In other action, the board approved a resolution to formally authorize the hiring of a village prosecutor.

Evert said Howard currently has a village prosecutor designated with Elizabeth Kremer Flanigan of the Hanaway Ross Law Firm handling those duties, but passage of the resolution was required after the state Department of Justice informed the village it needed to have an Originating Agency Identifier, also known as an ORI, to share traffic and criminal information.

He said the village prosecutor handles municipal traffic and criminal cases that are contested in court.

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