ASHTABULA — On Jan. 11, City Manager Anthony Cantagallo said he would take off one day a month without pay, as many of the city’s employees are doing, to help reduce the city’s anticipated $862,000 deficit this year.

Four other city employees were supposed to take two furlough days per month, according to his plan.

That was then, and this is now.

Cantagallo, who made $75,369 a year, received a 3.5 percent raise and did not take the 5 percent pay cut he talked about earlier this year.

“The other people in the city haven’t done it yet,” he said Wednesday. “I had a deal with City Council.”

City Council recently agreed to take a 10 percent pay cut, although council members James Trisket and Julie Lattimer have — on their own — refused pay since July 27, 2009, in order to help the city with its budget woes, according to Trisket and city payroll records. The 10 percent deduction has started coming out of President Charles Brockway’s pay, as well as that of Ward 3 Councilwoman Ann Stranman and Ward 2 Councilman August Pugliese, on Monday.

Council Vice President Betty Kist and Ward 1 Councilman Joseph Rose are considering taking the 10 percent pay cut but have yet to do so, according to city records. Neither could be reached for comment. Clerk of Council LaVette Hennigan said they have issues with Public Employees Retirement System benefit calculations and are looking at alternatives.

As for Cantagallo’s “deal” with council, Trisket said, “We’ve gone above and beyond the call of duty.”

Pugliese said the holdup to other city employees’ concessions is council action.

“Council members have done their part; the people under council have done their part,” he said. “Now, the manager should follow suit.”

Last month, after City Council publicly agreed to take a 10 percent pay cut, Kist asked Cantagallo and City Solicitor Michael Franklin whether they would take a similar pay cut during a televised meeting.

Franklin said, “Yes,” he would, and Cantagallo said he would “take it under advisement.”

When asked about that statement Wednesday, Cantagallo said, “I’m still taking it under advisement.”

Franklin, who earns $72,036 annually, has declined his raise and took a 5 percent pay cut as of Monday, City Auditor Michael Zullo confirmed Wednesday. Franklin also made additional reductions in his office expenditures, including ordering one unpaid furlough day a month for his secretaries, according to city documents.

Across the city, firefighters and police have made concessions to cut overtime in 2010, and the six employees under council agreed to a 10 percent cut in their pay from Monday through Dec. 26, city records show.

As for Union Local 1197 employees represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Cantagallo said the union is “in negotiations” with the city.

To save the city money, Cantagallo instituted a “no overtime” policy for public works department employees. Despite a snowstorm last weekend, city streets remained unplowed from 3 p.m. Friday until 11 p.m. Sunday. At Monday night’s council meeting, the city manager was criticized for the no-overtime policy, but he remained steadfast. He said if it snows this weekend, he will do it again.

Lattimer backed him on this policy, while Pugliese said he received angry phone calls from residents who wanted to get in touch with Cantagallo.

John Ginnard, owner of the e-Comm Cafe on Main Avenue, asked for Cantagallo’s resignation. Ginnard got his own vehicle and plowed the street Saturday. He said the policy puts residents in danger and depresses merchants’ business. He said people don’t come into the city because they are afraid their cars will get stuck.