Garfield council covers range of issues

The Garfield city council considered city-employee raises, garbage rates and wind-turbine zoning at its meeting last Wednesday, Nov. 28.

After discussion on each matter, the council voted to approve a raise for the town’s public works assistant and a $3 rate increase for monthly garbage service.

The meeting opened with the matter of pay.

“I’ve been pondering Robby’s raise,” said Mayor Jarrod Pfaff, regarding Public Works Assistant Robby Johnson, who began in August. “I think we should give it to him, but we need to come up with a policy. It can’t just be at the whim of us every year,” he added...