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State salary benchmark shifts county and judicial pay; court reallocates funds pending interpretation
Summary
Brazos County budget staff told Commissioners Court that a new state benchmark (referred to in the meeting as Senate Bill 2 93) changes how the county may pay some elected prosecutors and judges; county staff presented salary reductions, reallocations to operational accounts, and pending monitoring of statewide interpretations.
Nina Payne, staff member, told the Brazos County Commissioners Court at a July budget workshop that state law will affect local pay for some elected legal officials and that the county is taking a conservative interpretation while monitoring how other counties respond. "This is the county's portion... it's going from 18,000 to 25,000," Payne said when describing the statutory benchmark and its effect on supplements the county pays to judges and prosecutors. Payne said the court must publish proposed elected-official salaries in a newspaper and allow a grievance…
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