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Susquehanna County commissioners approve routine business: minutes, bills, room‑tax grants, IT hire and multi‑year raises
Summary
The Susquehanna County Board of Commissioners approved routine agenda items including minutes and bills, authorized roughly $71,500 in room‑tax grants, approved hiring for an IT position, and set a 3% annual raise for nonunion supervisor employees effective 01/01/2026 through 01/01/2028; the meeting then adjourned to the salary board for parallel approvals.
The Susquehanna County Board of Commissioners moved quickly through routine business in the recorded meeting, approving minutes, payment of bills, a slate of room‑tax grants, a personnel hire for the county’s IT position, and a scheduled multi‑year raise for nonunion supervisors.
Approvals recorded in the meeting transcript included: the minutes of Dec. 10 (motion and approval recorded), item 3 to pay bills (motion carried), and item 5 to hire “Randall Clarity of Halsted” for the open IT position (motion made by Commissioner Magriss; recorded ayes followed). The board also approved an attached list of room‑tax grants—described in the transcript as approximately $71,500 awarded this year—and a personnel item amending item 7 to grant nonunion supervisor employees a 3% annual raise effective Jan. 1, 2026, through Jan. 1, 2028 so the increases run concurrent with union contracts.
The commissioners then adjourned to the salary board, which opened at 09:05 and conducted parallel actions: closing public comment, approving minutes (referencing Dec. 10, 2025), approving the same effective‑date amendment for raises in the salary board context, and closing the salary board. The transcript includes several instances of recorded verbal “aye” approvals for motions; the meeting record does not list roll‑call vote names for most items.
Where the transcript is unclear, the article avoids asserting details not present in the record: the precise numeric reference recorded at the salary‑board closure in the transcript is unclear and is not reported here as a definitive dollar amount or salary figure. The board did not record any separate county budget appropriation or a public hearing on the raises during the portion of the meeting captured in the transcript.
