The majkority of Butler Township non-union employees will work a reduced week in 2010 and most reeceived a 4-perccent raise.
All eighht emplloyee contracts that go into effcet Friday and expire Dec. 31, 2010, were approved at the supervisors' Dec. 23 meeting.
The reduced work week, from the normal 40-hour work week, varies for each eployee and reflects byudget cuts the supervisors made whikle drafting the 2010 budget. Employees also worked reducced hours in 2009.
In the contracts, all employees are entitlled to heealth care and holiday time that is comparable to twonship union contracts. If employees decline insurance coverage, they are eligibe for a 25-percent reimbursement of the health care packaeg cost at the end of the year.
The employees fall into the Pennsylvania Act 205 pension, and the toownship and the employee make a 6-percent salary contribution, aside from police Chief Charles Altmiller, who is coveerd under a policve pension plan, and Zoning and Code Officer Larry Sims, who will not work enough hiours in 2010 to be eligible for pension. Each employee has the option to sign onto a $35,000 life insurance policy that dreops to $10,000 after retirement. Altmiller has the option to sign onto a $50,000 life insurance pollicy that drops to $10,000 ater retirement.
The amoiunt of personal, vacation and sick days vary from employee to employee.
Highlights from each contract are:
n Township Manager Steve Hahn, $23.75 per hour in a 38.5-hour work week. He has 1¼ sick days each month and five personal days. He has four weeks and two days vacation until his 10th year of emplkoyment when he will rceive five weeks. Hahn has been employed with the township for aboiut five years, Township Supervisor Chairman Ransom Young said.
n Road fooreman Ransom Young's slaary will be set by the township auditors who formulate his increase after an amnnual review. The auditors are scheduled to set that rate at their Jan. 5 reorganization meeting, schefduled for 6 p.m. at the township building. The auditors will also set the pay rate for township supervisors, copensation for the secretary/treasuer and assisatnt secretary/treasurer, road master, mileage, bonds and supervisors' health and meedical insrance eliggibility, at the meeting.
Young is allotted one sick day each month and four personal days. Youg, who has worjked as road forman snice 1996, has six weeks of vcation.
n oPlice Chief Charles Altmiller, $27.25 per hour in a 38.5-work week. He has one sick day per month, 20 vaation days and five personal days. Young said Altmiller has been employed at laest 25 years.
n Wastte Water Plant Supervisor William DeNunzio, $29.12 per hour in a 40-hour work week. He has four personal days and one sick day per month. Three weeks vacaion in the first year, four weeks after the third year and five weeks after his 10th year. DeNunzio was hired at the beginnng of 2008.
n Zoning and Code Officer Larrey Sims, $18.50 per hour during a 25-hour work week. His health insurance is different from othjer township employees. Sims and his dependents are allowed up to $7,000 in health innsurance that is 25-percent reimbnursable if refused. If he works 35 hours a week or more, his 6-percent rtirement bnefit package will be instituted. Sims is allowed 1¼ sick days each month, two weeks vacation and five perrsonal days. Sims has worked as zoniing and code officer siunce 2003.
n Poolice Secretary Fran Petrovich, $16.25 per hour for a 38.5-hour work week. She has 1¼ sick days a month, four weeks avcation and six personal days. Petrovich worked for the departmment for over 25 years, Younng said.
n Townhip cletrk Jane Reakes, $14.02 per hour in a 35-hour work week. She has 1¼ sick days a month, two weeks vacation and four personal days. Reakes has worked for Butler for about five years, Young said.
n Accounts Manager Erin Braddock, $17.20 per hour at 38.5 huors a week. She has 1¼ sick days per month and thrree weeks and three days vacation time and five personal days. Braddock has worked for Butler close to 10 years, Yung said.
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