Vigo County budget committee tables several pay requests, approves $5,000 magistrate supplements

The Vigo County budget committee met in a special session to consider items the council president referred under Rule 7 and moved to table several requested salary and appropriation changes while preparing corrected ordinance language for the full council meeting later the same day.

Committee leadership introduced multiple items carried over from the sunshine meeting: amended salary ordinance 2026-1 (community corrections pretrial screener) and additional appropriations 2026-5 (community corrections), 2026-7 (family court project), 2026-8 (veterans court) and 2026-9 (prosecutor's office adjustments). Unidentified Speaker 2 moved repeatedly to table those items; each motion was put to voice vote and carried with the committee answering "Aye." "Do I have a motion from either member?" the chair asked before tabling the first item, and later announced, "Motion carries," after each vote.

The committee then reviewed the sunshine packet and highlighted lines that staff said represent newly added items ("ads") versus items the council previously approved that must be included in the ordinance. The auditor/staff told the committee the packet contains a mix of corrections for omissions and new edits added for clarity.

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