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Grant County fiscal court delays 2.9% CPI pay increases for several elected officials, approves clerk's CPI salary amendment
Summary
The fiscal court voted Feb. 18, 2025, to postpone 2.9% cost-of-living adjustments recommended by the Department for Local Government for magistrates, the coroner and the county attorney, while approving a statutory CPI increase to the county clerk's elected salary retroactive to Jan. 1, 2025.
At its Feb. 18, 2025 meeting, the Grant County Fiscal Court voted to delay accepting a 2.9% cost-of-living adjustment (CPI) for several elected offices while approving an amendment to the county clerk's budget to reflect a statutory CPI increase applied to the county clerk's elected salary.
Tabitha Clemons, Grant County Clerk, asked the court to amend her office's budget to reflect the CPI adjustment the county receives annually. "We do this annually. I come back after we get CPI and ask you to adjust that so that the auditors will be happy when they come to audit me," Clemons said.
Magistrate Colton Riley moved to amend the county clerk's 2025 budget to apply the CPI adjustment to the county clerk's elected salary only; Magistrate John Cooner seconded the motion. The court approved the amendment by voice vote. The record notes that the change applies to the county clerk's elected position salary and does not alter the deputies' maximum salary, which the court had already set.
On three related agenda items, the court considered the Department for Local Government's 2.9% recommendation retroactive to Jan. 1, 2025, for magistrates, the coroner and the county attorney. For the magistrates, Magistrate Colton Riley moved that the court take no action to implement the 2.9% increase at this time, citing the county's current financial disposition; Magistrate Roger Humphrey seconded the motion, and the court carried the motion.
The court took the same approach on the coroner's recommended increase, holding off on action until later, and again on the county attorney's 2.9% CPI adjustment after the county attorney, Stephen Bates, elected not to accept the raise. In each case the court recorded motions to take no action and declared the motions carried by voice vote.
The record includes the statutory references the court used to place the items on the agenda; the transcript records the text as "provision carrier 64 5 2 7" and a separate reference during the county attorney item to "provision of care s 15 7 6 5." The court did not provide additional budget figures in the public record beyond the 2.9% percentage and the retroactive effective date of Jan. 1, 2025.
Court members said they will revisit the question of elected-official compensation later in the year once they have a clearer financial picture.
