North New Castle News

The New Castle County Council overturned the county executive’s veto to raise pay for council staff.

Councilman Penrose Hollins advocated for this decision and said that the council staff deserves a pay rise as they have taken over a vast amount of workload left over by the retired staff members.

“We’re now asking our officers to be more in tune with the technology aspects of today’s time. So what it means is that we really want to retain good workers on County government," Hollins said, according to Delaware Public Media.

According to Delaware Public Media,, there was an unanimous agreement to this decision except for Council President Karen Hartley-Nagle, who disagreed. She said that although she agrees with raising pay scales, it should be according to who deserves what pay.

“We do a tax increase as we did a couple of years ago, they’re [saying] you’ve now asked for a tax increase, and you’re spending this money—but there’s nobody outside looking at this," she said.