Note: The meeting transcript references September 23, 2026, but the official date provided for this summary is September 24, 2026. This discrepancy is noted here.
The Olympia Salary Commission met to finalize the 2026 council member salary schedule. The three members present (Paul, Aaron, Karen) unanimously approved the agenda, previous meeting minutes, and the new salary schedule after a brief discussion of insurance cost projections.
Okay, if your camera's off, I just want to there because okay. So I'm going to call to order the uh September 23rd meeting of the uh Olympia Salary Commission. Um I think our roll call would be pretty easy to do since we all have met each other. Paul, Aaron, and Karen are here. So we have a quorum. So that's good. Um I would entertain a motion to approve our agenda. I move that we approve the agenda. Therefore. I second. It's been moving and seconded to approve our agenda. Um any discussion or changes about that. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Since we all said yes, I don't need to ask for the no's, and it looks like we've approved that. So thank you. We have two minutes in our packet uh from May and from July. And we can approve those either all together or make a motion for the separate ones, or if anybody has any corrections or anything. No corrections. Here either. Okay. So I need a motion and a second to approve our minutes, and it could include the May and the July minutes. I move that we approve both the minutes. May and July. Sorry. I I'm trying to move things between two one screen, so it's a little harder to see everything. Seconded. Okay, it's been moved and seconded to approve our minutes from our previous meetings. Any changes or adjustments to those minutes? I didn't hear that before the motion. Um all those in favor say aye. Hi. Hi. So by a unanimous of our three, we have approved our uh minutes from the last meetings. Um I have we received any public comment. No public comment, and there's no one logged on but us. And no one, and no one registered in advance or anything like that. So well, that's too bad that people aren't paying attention. We want them to have make public comment about we could do all kinds of crazy stuff. So uh we will move on from public comment and on to our business item, which is the finance fine to finalize our council member salary schedule. We have four uh attachments. I hope uh that were included on the agenda. I hope everyone had a chance to look at those. I don't think things have changed except a point. Was it a 0.2 or a 0.02 percent increase from the insurance? Uh the original projection was 24.4, and now it's 22.4. Oh, so oh, it was actually a couple points. So it's less by a little bit. That's encouraging if we can move in the 20s down to 22. So I'm uh Paul and Aaron, if you have comments, further discussion.