Trustee calls for GFD salary increases

Trustee Lisa Harbeck said she will not vote to approve the Village of Grafton’s proposed 2021 budget if Fire Chief Bill Rice and Division Chief Matthew Karpinski don’t receive salary increases. 

“That’s not acceptable to me. I feel like the Public Safety Committee wasn’t listened to,” Harbeck, who is chairman of the Public Safety Committee, said during Monday’s public hearing on the budget. 

“I will be voting no for this reason. I don’t like how it happened.”