Martinsville Police Chief Rick Lang addresses those gathered in council chambers Monday night after he was surprised with a special recognition for his 50 years of service in law enforcement. (Stephen Crane photo / MCC)
MARTINSVILLE — In a tense exchange over funding, the city’s former clerk-treasurer clashed with the current at the Martinsville City Council meeting on Monday night, leading the council to table the agenda item and revisit it later this month.
Municipal court judge Mark Peden approached the council asking for an increase in work hours allotted to Becky Tumey, the city’s former clerk-treasurer who now serves as the municipal court clerk.
Currently, she’s allotted 29 work hours a week, but Peden was asking to increase it to 35 hours and add Friday as an additional day for the municipal court to be open. Currently, it operates Monday through Thursday.
But increasing those hours would mean Tumey’s position would go from part-time to full-time, and that would mean a...
