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Board rolls internet stipend into supervisors' pay, approves role-based salary substitute
Summary
Vice Chair Dickinson's substitute resolution moved $14,000 from an internet stipend into base wages for supervisors and created modest role-based differentials for chair and vice chair; the substitute and the resulting salary change were adopted, though not unanimously.
The Marathon County Board adopted a substitute resolution to fold the existing Internet stipend into base supervisor salaries and to set role‑based differentials for the chair and vice chair.
Vice Chair Dickinson explained the rationale: folding the roughly $14,000 stipend into base wages would increase wage transparency, reduce administrative effort, and apply future increases uniformly. "When we get rid of that stipend ... the initial resolution does just puts that into next year," Dickinson said while explaining the substitute. The substitute also established a base wage and added role‑based amounts for chair and vice chair so that future increases apply evenly across members.
The board moved and approved the substitute and then voted to adopt the salary resolution as amended; both votes carried but were not unanimous. Staff was directed to update payroll and rules to reflect the change and to bring a final substitute resolution text into the meeting manager for the record.
Next steps: Administration and payroll will implement the salary adjustments in the next fiscal cycle and prepare a substitute resolution text for formal documentation and public record.
