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Domestic relations court asks to shift clerk salary to general fund to free mediation funds for attorney mediator
Summary
Judge Beth Owens requested shifting an assignment clerk27s salary fully to the general fund so the court's mediation fund can be used to hire a part-time attorney mediator; commissioners questioned pay-scale alignment and related staffing costs.
Domestic Relations Judge Beth Owens presented the court27s 2026 budget and asked the commissioners to move an assignment clerk27s salary from a non-general mediation fund into the general fund so the mediation fund can be used to retain an attorney mediator.
Owens told the board that the court has for the last three years paid an employee out of its mediation fund and that the mediation fund has been depleted. The…
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