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Public commenters press Franklin County on property assessments, corrections pay and jail privatization
Summary
At the Nov. 11 Franklin County commissioners meeting, resident Valerie Jordan urged higher pay for correctional officers, cited county fiscal figures and warned against privatizing the jail; a commissioner replied that average correctional officer pay in the county is about $25 per hour (~$52,000 annually) and comparable to neighboring counties. No
Valerie Jordan spoke during the public-comment period at the Nov. 11 Franklin County commissioners meeting, urging the board to consider employee pay and warning against privatizing the county jail.
Jordan cited several fiscal figures in her remarks: she said the average county assessment on real property is $21,000, asserted that a correctional officer pay raise would cost about $900,000 annually out of a $162,700,000 county budget, and stated that Franklin County received $33,000,000 from the state in 2025. She…
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