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Judges and court staff seek pay-grade bump for law clerk, courtroom remodel funds and budget shifts for drug testing
Summary
District court staff asked Bannock County commissioners to raise a law-clerk grade to improve recruitment and retention, requested $100,000 for a courtroom remodel and proposed moving some drug-testing and jury-amenity costs between line items.
Judges and district court staff told Bannock County commissioners they need pay, space and line-item adjustments to improve recruitment, retain experienced staff and cover indigent pretrial drug testing expenses.
A delegation that included a district judge and court administrators requested a grade increase for a law-clerk position in Judge Gaviola’s chambers. County staff described the law-clerk role as historically lower paid than a staff attorney and said that at least one long-serving law clerk who has not yet passed the bar is being paid less than comparable positions in other districts. Judge Gaviola said institutional knowledge from long-tenured clerks “is…
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