RENSSELAERVILLE — Following a 45-minute executive session to discuss job appointments, Rensselaerville’s town board, with two new members — Steve Pfleging, a Democrat, as supervisor, and Jason Rauf, a Republican, as a councilman — kept many of the same people in town offices, though with a few new appointments.

Of the new appointments, the board approved Brian Welsh to replace Earl David Potter as the deputy highway superintendent, Rebecca Platel replaced Richard Platel as a Water and Sewer Committee member. Councilman John Dolce was appointed deputy supervisor, replacing Councilwoman Marion Cooke.

The board agreed to table the appointment of a planning and zoning board secretary, with Pfleging to temporarily fill the role until the post is filled. Pfleging had served as the secretary before being elected supervisor. He owns a construction business and had never before ran for office. He was unopposed in November.

Pfleging made a motion to create a new town position, an assistant to Linda McCormick, who serves as a clerk to the supervisor and bookkeeper. The board unanimously approved the creation of the position, as well as Pfleging’s second motion to appoint Valerie Lounsbury — the former supervisor who declined to run for re-election this fall — to that post. Lounsbury will be paid $20 an hour and work a maximum of 15 hours a week for a one-year term.

Marie Dermody, another former town supervisor who had run unsuccessfully for town council this past fall, said from the gallery that there were mistakes in the pay schedules that were approved for the town workers. The deputy water and sewer officer, she said, should have seen an increase in his wages to $15 an hour, but the town had approved his salary at $10 an hour.

Dermody also said that the salary for McCormick, at $19.90, did not indicate a 2.5-percent raise she had been set to receive, said Dermody. She also said that, while the town had appointed only one building inspector clerk, the pay schedule listed a Building Inspector Clerk and Building Inspector Clerk A.

Pfleging said that Debra Baxter had been appointed as Clerk A, and offered his apologies. Mark Overbaugh, the town’s building inspector and code enforcement officer, asked if he was being appointed as a clerk, which he said had been discussed when the town budget was being made. Councilwoman Margaret Seidlemeir said that the board would not be doing that.

“No, sorry, we’re not entertaining that this year,” she said.

Overbaugh had been appointed to undertake the tasks of that position temporarily last year, with the caveat that his performance be reviewed in April, when it was reported by Overbaugh that his office was being run efficiently.

Pfleging moved to rescind the motion to appoint Debra Baxter as the clerk to the building inspector and code enforcement officer and then made the motion to appoint her as Clerk A. The board approved this unanimously.

The board also approved raising the salary for Clerk I, McCormick’s job, from $19.90 an hour to $23.35 an hour. Pfleging said the change in the deputy water and sewer officer’s wages was $40 a year and made a motion to exclude these wages from the pay schedule until it could be examined further to find out what the increase should be.

The board also swore in some newly appointed town employees, though not all. Donna Kropp and Kathryn Wank, who were re-elected as assessors in November, waited patiently to be sworn in until they realized the papers to do so were not on hand.