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Votes at a glance: court sets salary caps, accepts fee reports, approves hires and hires review contract
Summary
At its Jan. 10 meeting, the Scott County Fiscal Court approved several administrative orders and personnel actions including annual sheriff and clerk salary caps, fee estimates and settlements, reappointments, EMS and court-security staffing changes, and authorized a market-pay study contract.
The Scott County Fiscal Court covered multiple routine and administrative items Jan. 10 and recorded a series of motions and votes that move county business forward.
Among the actions approved by voice vote:
- Minutes from the previous meeting were approved after a motion from Kelly Corman and a second from Rick Hostetler.
- The court accepted a Sheriff’s submission of fees and clerk fees for the record: the sheriff’s office submitted fees in the amount of $1,652,480.71 and the clerk’s fees were submitted at $120,198.54 (clerk, Rebecca Johnson, as presented to the court).
- The court reappointed all current county employees as an annual housekeeping action (motion by Rick Hostetler; outcome: approved).
- The court set the sheriff’s 2025 annual salary cap under KRS 64.530 at $5,810,000, “including fringe benefits,” for deputies and other employees paid from sheriff’s fees. Cam (court staff) read the statutory language aloud during the item.
- The court accepted the sheriff’s 2025 fee account budget estimate/book-balance summary and the 2024 supplemental settlement reports as presented.
- The court set the county clerk’s 2025 annual salary cap under KRS 64.530 at $1,695,000 for deputies, assistants and other employees paid from clerk fees, after comments from clerk staff that the office had already hired to handle two locations and could return to amend the cap if necessary.
- Personnel and staffing actions: the court approved the appointment of Joy Jones as a part-time EMS educator at an hourly rate presented, and approved moving Earl Shaver from a part-time certified court security worker to a full-time court security position in the sheriff’s office. Sheriff Jeremy Nautz presented the court-security request and said the full-time position will help cover needs as the new justice building comes online.
- The court approved a market-pay check with Hannah Resource Group to verify recent compensation adjustments and to maintain pay-scale data. The motion carried after a recorded voice vote in which two members registered “no”; the ayes had the majority. Court discussion during that item included concerns about national vs. local data sets, the cost of data subscriptions and a request that contract language be updated on indemnification.
- The court approved EMS attendance at a two-day training about carrying whole blood in prehospital settings; staff said the training was funded in the department travel budget and will help evaluate equipment and refrigeration needs before expanding the program.
Most of the items were routine and supported by staff reports submitted by email before the meeting. Where specific vote counts were recorded in the transcript, the record notes them (for instance the Hannah Resource Group motion passed with two nays); most approvals were voice votes without a numeric roll-call in the public minutes.
