The Trenton Park Board Pool Committee on April 5^th discussed raising pay for pool staff and daily rates. Information is to be presented to the Park Board on April 6^th for the board to vote. The Pool Committee meeting was originally to be at the Park Office, but it was moved to Barnes Greenhouses due to the Park Office being locked at the meeting’s start time.

The Pool Committee wants to raise pool staff pay to $10 per hour for employees in their first year as certified lifeguards. This is a $1 per hour more than first-year certified lifeguards last year. Non-certified staff members last year were paid $8 per hour and did things like run the concession stand.

Staff members returning this year for their second year would be paid $10.25 per hour. Those returning for a third year would be paid $10.50, and others would receive a 25-cent per hour raise each year they return. Pool Committee Chairperson Andy Cox mentioned returning employees had historically been given a 25-cent per hour raise for each year they came back.

The pool manager would be paid $13.50 per hour, which is an increase of $1.50 per hour from last year. The assistant manager would get $11.50 per hour, which is up $1.25 from last year.

Cox reported the city is exempt from the minimum wage law. Missouri’s minimum wage is $11.15 per hour.

Cox, Pool Committee Member Beth Mack, and Park Board President Curtis Crawford said they hated to not pay the minimum wage, even if the city did not have to. However, this...

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