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County employee asks commissioners to restore pre-budget clothing allowance for nonuniform officers
Summary
A sheriff's department employee asked commissioners to reverse a recent decision to make a $1,100 clothing allowance reimbursable rather than paid through regular payroll, citing longstanding practice and IRS guidance on taxable allowances.
Paula Dance, speaking in public comment at the June 2 Pitt County Board of Commissioners meeting, urged the board to restore a longstanding clothing allowance practice for nonuniformed law-enforcement personnel and to reconsider a recent decision to make the allowance reimbursable rather than paid through payroll.
Dance said the county has provided a clothing allowance for about 30 years to officers who cannot perform duties in uniform — for example, undercover or plainclothes assignments — and that the allowance had historically been paid rather than reimbursed. She told commissioners the current practice under consideration would…
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