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Council delays HR salary ordinance changes after questions over retroactive raises and process
Summary
Boone County Council deferred consideration of a salary ordinance amendment and requested clearer paperwork after members identified retroactive payroll changes, multiple payroll change forms and disagreement about whether classification and title changes were advertised on the agenda.
Boone County Council postponed action on a salary ordinance amendment affecting HR positions after members raised questions about retroactive payroll changes, signatures on payroll forms and whether classification changes were properly noticed.
Andrew Cho, with County Human Resources, presented a request to change two salary lines (6880 and 6881 in council materials) from HR assistant and HR director to two HR generalist positions and to reappropriate $16,538.40 between those lines. Councilmembers said the advertised agenda item was a salary ordinance amendment for the HR assistant only, and several members said reclassification to "HR generalist" and the proposed reappropriation should have been advertised separately.
Councilmembers scrutinized two payroll-change forms: one signed in December and another signed on Jan. 28 with a classification change and an additional 10% increase that was retroactive to Jan. 1, 2025. One councilmember noted a December form bore only the prior HR director's signature while a later form included commissioners' signatures; members asked why the forms differed and whether standard signing procedures were followed.
Amber, identified in discussion as a county employee who had received a raise, told the council commissioners discussed her expanded duties and that she had been given a 10% increase after consulting with staff. Amber said the 5% previously reflected in budget actions related to earlier approvals and that the commissioners had acted outside the normal council process to authorize additional pay.
Councilmember Aaron said, "You're getting paid now. I would really like to get a higher level of details and have commissioners that have made these suggestions present at the meeting." Several members agreed they needed full documentation and commissioner representation before voting; a motion to table the item to the March meeting carried.
Council staff told members the reappropriation for the requested changes would be processed in March if the amendment were approved. Members asked HR to supply complete payroll-change paperwork, signatures and documentation of the compensation-committee or budget-era decisions that produced the increases before the council would consider any ordinance change.
