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ITD seeks targeted wage increases and added frontline staff as retention lags; committee probes details
Summary
ITD described efforts to add frontline maintenance workers and raise pay for maintenance career paths, citing a multi‑year average of 78 maintenance departures a year and the need to reduce churn as the department implements training and CDL requirements.
During the JFAC transportation budget hearing, Idaho Transportation Department leaders defended requests to add frontline positions and to raise pay steps for maintenance career paths, telling lawmakers the measures aim to improve retention and reduce training churn.
Brooke Dupree, the legislative budget analyst, reminded the committee that ITD received 53 new full‑time positions in the prior budget cycle for district maintenance and engineering assistants. Director Scott Stokes said the 53 positions were “all in district, frontline operational type positions,” and that recruitment had filled roughly 50 of those posts to date while ITD still reports…
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