A lengthy hearing and discussion during Tuesday’s city council meeting led council members to delay voting on a proposed wage issue involving Topeka’s water division until next week.
The motion to delay passed on a 7-2 vote with Councilmen Michael Lesser and Mike Padilla voting no.
The three resolutions up for discussion and a vote included implementing the proposed 2 to 10 p.m. second shift for the water division, pay raises over a three-year period totaling 11.5 percent and arranging for those raises to occur retroactively as part of their first pay period for 2019.
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