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Marion County commissioners express support for $1 across‑the‑board pay increase and moving top-out to 20 years; health insurance costs rise
Summary
Commissioners discussed a proposed $1 across‑the‑board pay increase, reducing the top-out from 25 to 20 years, and absorbing family health insurance cost increases; staff presented payroll and insurance estimates and outlined cost implications and options for compressing the pay scale.
Marion County commissioners spent a substantial portion of a work session reviewing employee pay scales, payroll impacts and health insurance costs and expressed general support for a $1 across‑the‑board pay increase combined with reducing the pay-scale top-out from 25 years to 20 years.
County staff presented payroll figures and a health‑insurance update. A county staff member identified in the transcript as Scott summarized health coverage costs and said the county’s single-coverage premium would increase and that family-coverage increases have been absorbed by the county in recent years. “We pay all single coverage... and the last few years we’ve absorbed…
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