{"id":10635,"date":"2025-05-20T05:52:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2025-05-20T05:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:56:07","slug":"acting-town-manager-recommends-increasing-town-clerks-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10635","title":{"rendered":"Acting Town Manager Recommends Increasing Town Clerks Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Acting Town Manager, Kim Bernard, argues for increasing the Town Clerk&#8217;s compensation at the 5\/5\/2025 Town Council meeting. Bernard highlights that the&nbsp;current clerk is significantly underpaid compared to those in neighboring towns, citing salary figures for other municipalities. Bernard notes that the&nbsp;clerk has not received a cost-of-living adjustment in nearly three years, despite other town employees receiving such raises following union negotiations. He suggests this oversight needs to be&nbsp;rectified in the upcoming budget process, emphasizing the importance of fair compensation for all town employees, including elected officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Acting Town Manager Recommends Increasing Town Clerks Compensation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HOFrY4Gn_7c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7929\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7929\">Town Clerk Compensation, No Answers, just more Questions<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7820\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7820\">Town Clerk\u2019s Compensation?<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhmunicipal.org\/town-city-article\/legal-qa-municipal-official-vs-municipal-employee-what-difference-does-it-matter\">LEGAL Q&amp;A: Municipal Official vs Municipal Employee: What is the Difference &amp; Does it Matter for Compensation &amp; Personnel Policies?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7936\">Is the Town Withholding Information Prior to an Election?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting Town Manager, Kim Bernard, argues for increasing the Town Clerk&#8217;s compensation at the 5\/5\/2025 Town Council meeting. Bernard highlights that the&nbsp;current clerk is significantly underpaid compared to those in neighboring towns, citing salary figures for other municipalities. Bernard notes that the&nbsp;clerk has not received a cost-of-living adjustment in nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10637,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions\/10637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}