Commissioners debate 4% pay raise after staff payroll error; amendment modifies executive pay

Jan 5, 2026

A dispute over whether staff should receive a 4% cost-of-living increase led to an amendment that corrected an omitted employee and reduced an executive pay line. Commissioners traded accusations of poor transparency during the budget process.

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Commissioners spent a significant portion of the meeting debating a planned cost-of-living raise and a payroll-table error that left one employee off the manpower schedule while inadvertently including a raise for the executive director.

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