A pay raise for Marthasville’s mayor and board of aldermen may actually happen this time.At the Feb. 17 board of aldermen meeting, the board unanimously instructed city attorney Jamis Kresyman to put together an ordinance to approve a pay increase for the elected officials. The ordinance is needed to make the raises official and clear up some confusion.Mayor David Lange said the old board proposed a raise in 2014. The raises were even included in subsequent budgets, but no ordinance was ever passed.“They budgeted for and we even budgeted for it last year,” Lange said. “For the last three years it’s been in the budget, and they haven’t taken effect because the ordinance was never approved.”Lange said he and members of the board recently realized the discrepancy between what they thought they were getting paid and what they were actually receiving. The mayor and board recently have been doing an audit of city expenses and spotted the issue.“It was never applied,” Lange said. “We started paying people and people were saying ‘My check doesn’t match the budget.’”Lange said he was told the prior administration talked about the raises, but never passed the corresponding ordinance.The ordinances are for the positions and not for the currently elected officials, Lange said.The new rates would be $2,000 annually for the mayor and $1,700 per year for the aldermen. The new rate is a $500 increase on the old salaries.The last salary increase was in 2006.The board is expected to vote on the ordinance at its March meeting.Marthasville