If you are one of the 15-hundred who work for the New Castle County government you could get a onetime bonus of $750.
County Executive Tom Gordon wants the County Council to approve the payment to reward employees for their efforts during a time of austerity.
The county budget had a surplus of $1.5 million at the end of the last fiscal year.
The cost of the bonus would eat up most of that coming in at just over a million dollars.
It would still leave $300-thousand in the till.
The current $174 million budget has no tax increases something that Gordon has refused to do during his two terms in office.
Earlier in the year the county had been expected to have a deficit in July of $2.5 million before the budget cuts.
