The financial anxieties of municipal staff members wound up stealing the show on Tuesday when Elon’s town council held a public hearing about the town’s next annual budget.
In the end, the pleas of two employees who hoped to preserve their customary merit-based raise were the only remarks that the council heard when it invited the public to weigh in on the proposed spending plan that town manager Richard Roedner had previously pitched to its members.
The latest version of Roedner’s proposed budget calls for $13.6 million in outlays from the town’s general fund, which takes in revenue from various taxes and fees to fund most of the town’s services and operations…