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Commission splits on pay, salary limits and reimbursements for county officials and charter commissioners
Summary
The commission advanced a charter amendment limiting salaries for county officials but rejected related measures to change how the charter review commission and other elected officials are paid or reimbursed; votes were split across multiple proposals.
The Whatcom County Charter Review Commission took several separate votes June 11 on measures addressing pay, salary-setting, and reimbursement for elected officials and the county’s Charter Review Commission.
A proposal from Commissioner Andrew Redding to cap certain county officer salaries by tying them to the highest published salaries among charter counties under 2,000,000 population passed by a recorded vote that the clerk summarized as 7 in favor, 6 opposed and 2 abstentions. Redding urged the change as a guardrail against steep increases set by the independent salary commission, saying the county’s salary levels had grown “out of line” with comparable counties.
The commission considered several companion measures addressing pay and compensation for…
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