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Pitkin County commissioners debate raising elected-official pay and options to change statutory category
Summary
Staff outlined options to raise elected-official salaries (Home Rule Charter amendment or state legislative action) and estimated the general-fund impact; commissioners debated timing, fairness, recruitment and whether to pursue a charter amendment or seek legislative reclassification.
County staff presented legal constraints and options on Jan. 13 for changing elected-official salaries. Pitkin County currently is transcribed in the meeting as category 2B; staff outlined a potential move to category 1A to align commissioner salaries with peer resort counties, citing higher assessed valuation, complex workloads and daily population swings due to tourism.
Two procedural options were explained: (1) a home-rule charter amendment that would be submitted to voters (a ballot question) to alter local salary-setting rules for commissioners, or (2) seek a state…
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