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Solicitor general asks council for pay parity; council punts to midyear budget review
Summary
Solicitor General Siobhan Thomas told council that starting attorney pay at the solicitor's office is not competitive and requested parity with DA/public defender salaries plus a discretionary recruiting budget; council agreed to refer the request to the midyear budget review rather than grant immediate emergency pay increases.
Siobhan Thomas, Columbus’ solicitor general, told City Council she is struggling to recruit and retain prosecutors with the office’s current starting salary and asked the council to consider moving the incoming attorney pay to parity with the district attorney and public defender offices and to approve a discretionary recruiting budget.
Thomas said the solicitor general’s posted starting salary of roughly $62,000 is too…
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