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Harrisonburg electoral board presses for pay parity; registrar urges separate budget line
Summary
At a Sept. 8 Harrisonburg City Electoral Board meeting, members pressed for pay equal to precinct chiefs and urged the city to add an electoral-board budget line; the city registrar said state law fixes member pay and recommended the board submit a separate budget request for training and travel.
Harrisonburg City Electoral Board member Ramona Sanders pressed the board’s funding case on Sept. 8, calling for pay parity with precinct chiefs and urging the locality to add electoral-board compensation to the city budget. “The lowest hanging fruit, in my opinion, is equalizing the election-day pay for us with the pay of what the chiefs get, which is $300 a day,” Sanders said.
The board’s registrar, identified in the meeting only as Mark, said he had forwarded the board’s request to include higher pay into his budget submission but emphasized that actual compensation for electoral-board members is set by state law. “I did send your request into my budget that I submitted to Mister Probst, but just because I submitted it doesn’t mean it would be approved or added,” Mark said. He added that he must avoid unilateral financial decisions that could place him…
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