NORWAY – Keyed by the recreation director’s request for a pay raise, town officials decided to review the salaries and responsibilities of all employees.

Debra Partridge asked for a $2,500 raise at the selectmen’s meeting on Thursday.

The board asked her to provide information listing her responsibilities and accomplishments during her time as recreation director.

Partridge’s salary is divided between recreation and administrative duties.

Holt recommended that the job descriptions and pay of all town employees needed to be reviewed.

“We have 27 or 28 full-time employees and we need to treat them all in a system,” Holt said on Monday. “It’s hard to pull one out and deal with it individually. Her pay may be low or may be the most out of whack. But, we have others that also deserve a look.”

Holt said he would like a professional group to do a pay study for the town. He said he could do the study, but thought it better if it was done an entity that did not know anybody working for the town. He also said the research could take a long time.

He said a Jay official sent him a pay study that the town recently had done. He liked the results, but did not know the cost as of Monday.

“The idea is to look at the possibility of updating all job descriptions and once that is done, do a pay study,” Holt said. “There is extra money in the salary line of the recreation budget, so if the board chooses to pay more money it is available.

“What we don’t have is the money for a pay study,” he said.

In other business, selectmen discussed the traffic congestion problems caused by the annual weekend outdoor music and pro marijuana festival held on the private property of Aaron Fuda.

Fuda lives on Wiley Road and people attending the festival have parked in such a way that emergency vehicles do not have access to the festival or several nearby homes.

Norway police Sgt. Rob Federico told selectmen that numerous noise and parking complaints were filed with his department during the festival held on the second weekend this month.

He did say there were fewer complaints this year than in years past.

“The parking problem is certainly bad if we needed to get through with a firetruck or ambulance,” Holt said.

He said there are certain hours where an emergency vehicle could get through and certain hours where it would be blocked.

Officials decided to continue discussions at the Aug. 7 meeting.

Selectmen also elected William Damon as board chairman and Robert Walker as vice chairman.

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