Trustees insisted that the village faced the need of hiring a second assistant village manager as well as an economic development director, at a cost, including benefits, that would be more than double what the mayor's new salary would be. In a letter handed to residents before the start of the meeting, the village said that, over the course of the mayor's four-year term, the village would make pension contributions totaling $77,000 compared with $111,000 for two new employees over the same period.