LEBANON — The city's 130 full-time employees would get bonuses of up to $2,500 at the end of the year under a plan City Council will vote on Tuesday.

        The bonuses would cost the city $283,900.

        “It may never — probably will never — happen again,” said Councilman James Reinhard. “... This is just kind of to make up for the inadequacies and the turmoil that have happened the last sev eral years.”

        Because of employee dissatisfaction with how bonuses were given, council scrapped them last year, giving only an across-the-board pay raise.

        “The concern was that they were being administered arbitrarily,” Councilman Mark Flick said of the earlier bonus brouhaha.

        This year's plan was produced by a committee of em ployees looking at salaries and bonuses. If it's adopted by council, this is what workers — including police officers and firefighters — will find in their stockings come December:

        • $750 for less than a year of service.

        • $1,500 for one to two years' service.

        • $2,000 for two to three years' service.

        • $2,500 for more than three years' service.

        Part-time firefighters would receive $50 to $250, depending how long they've been on the job.

        The same employee group also is looking at how best to handle pay raises.

        Also Tuesday, council could approve a deal to bring a third company into the city-owned Columbia Business Park.

        Lebanon began selling land this year in the 138-acre park, near Interstate 71 on the southern edge of the city. Franklin Brazing already is building there, and council has approved a contract with Quantum Metals.

        The latest prospective tenant, Doran Racing, originally was going to take its 11-employee company from Fields Ertel Road to Lebanon Commerce Park, owned by Henkle-Schueler. In fact, council had already approved an incentive plan in which the city would have bought the Henkle-Schueler land and leased it to Doran.

        However, Doran decided it preferred Columbia — also marketed by Henkle-Schueler — after learning it could use a builder other than Henkle-Schueler in the city's park. The company would use the site to build and fix race cars.

        At a recent meeting, council members appeared supportive of Doran moving.

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