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LaSalle County board approves multiple personnel actions, $1 hourly IT raise and full-time public defender position
Summary
The LaSalle County board approved three 30-day discretionary leaves, converted a public defender office assistant to a full-time county-paid position and approved a $1-per-hour raise for a circuit clerk IT employee; the board also voted to enter and exit executive session under 5 ILCS 120/2(c).
LaSalle County board members on Oct. 12 approved several personnel actions including three 30-day discretionary leaves, the conversion of a public defender office assistant to a full-time county-paid position and a $1-per-hour wage increase for a circuit clerk information-technology employee.
The actions were taken during the county board meeting after votes to come out of and later to go into executive session under 5 ILCS 120/2(c), the Illinois Open Meetings Act provision for collective bargaining and salary-schedule deliberations.
The board approved discretionary leave requests extending three employees20for 30 days each: a LaSalle County Sheriff's Department jail employee, a nursing-home employee and a highway department employee. Each leave request was moved and seconded and passed by voice vote.
The board approved the LaSalle County Public Defender's…
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