City officials are rewarding Pell City employees for their hard work and dedication to making the city run as efficiently as possible by giving them a one-time raise for the holiday season.

Full time employees will receive an additional $100, and part-time employees will receive $50.

At the council meeting Monday night, City Manager Patrick Draper told the council the city has fine employees who deserve to be rewarded.

The city has given employees one-time raises in the past.  The last time city officials approved a one-time raise was back in 2008.

“Employees will have a little bit of cushion on their salary line,” Draper said.

The proposal to pay employees will not impact the city budget.  The one-time raise will cost the city approximately $16,524.

Draper said the city previously agreed to delay hiring additional employees until April.  Now city officials will wait until May before hiring new employees.  This move will save the city approximately $32,000, more than twice the cost of providing employees with the one-time raise.

“This is a token, a small token, of our appreciation,” Mayor Joe Funderburg said. “Personally, I wish we could do more.”

Funderburg said the city takes a sincere interest in employees and wants to compensate employees when there is an opportunity to do so.

In other actions the council:

—Approved selling a city fire truck to Dixon Mills Volunteer Fire Department in Marengo County for the amount of $27,500.

—Approved rezoning property at 212 Kings Circle, owned by Wanda Gayle Sexton, from office building (O-1) district to medium low-density residential  (R-2) district.

—Approved to rezoned property south of the U.S. Post Office on U.S. 231, owned by Kathy Abbott Newton and Frieda Polk for the Estate of W. H. Harmon, from general business ( B-2) district to heavy business (B-3) district.

—Approved installing a street light on Seddon Pointe Circle at the request of a resident..

—Approved soliciting bids for five new police vehicles on 48-month leases.

—Approved soliciting bids to outfit the new police vehicles.

—Approved soliciting bids for mobile data terminals or computers for the new police vehicles.

—Approved soliciting bids for a new limb truck for the street department.

—Approved advertising the vacant fire chief job.

—Authorized the city manager to enter into an agreement with St. Vincent’s Health System to evaluate the city’s healthcare costs at no cost to the city.