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Resident criticizes county pay increases and contract spending during public comment
Summary
A Garwood resident assailed proposed pay increases and county spending at the Union County commissioners meeting, citing departmental percent increases and alleged stipend practices; county officials provided only limited response during the hearing.
Bruce Patterson of Garwood used the public-comment period to sharply criticize the board’s compensation practices and recent contract payments. Patterson said the county’s compensation committee awards repeated salary increases and alleged special stipends and patronage practices that benefit senior officials. He also raised questions about contract augmentations to a company identified in the record as Ron Lee Realty and asked that constitutional officers’…
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