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Fire marshal seeks new environmental specialist, certification pay and administrative promotion; commissioners approve two positions but defer part-time hires
Summary
The county fire marshal asked commissioners to add certification pay for fire inspectors/investigators, promote an administrative assistant to chief deputy clerk and add an environmental specialist; commissioners approved the environmental specialist and promotion but declined two part-time inspector hires pending space and budget constraints.
Van Zandt County’s fire marshal presented staffing and pay proposals at the Aug. 7 budget workshop, asking the commissioners to add a full-time environmental specialist, to promote an administrative assistant to chief deputy clerk, and to adopt a certification-pay schedule aligning fire inspector/investigator pay with peace-officer certificate pay.
The fire marshal asked the court to add incremental certificate pay for Texas Commission on Fire Protection qualifications (an "intermediate" level, then advanced and master levels). The marshal proposed annual certificate stipends on a tiered basis…
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