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Washington County supervisors approve clerks' pay supplement, career raise, a business incubator appointment and a contract for Laurel Gateway
Summary
The Board approved multiple routine and substantive items: a $6,728 transfer for juvenile/domestic clerk salary supplements, a $16.46 transfer to cover a backdated career-development raise in the Commissioner of the Revenue's office, appointed an incubator executive director and awarded a market analysis contract for the Laurel Gateway Project; all motions carried.
The Washington County Board of Supervisors handled several agenda items and votes in a meeting focused on routine approvals and a handful of development and personnel actions.
Salary supplements and career raise: The board approved a transfer of $6,728 from the reserve for contingencies to provide a salary supplement for the juvenile and domestic clerks that equates to a $2,500-per-employee annual supplement (the $6,728 covers six months), reducing the contingency balance from $138,801.66 to $132,073.66 as described by staff. On a separate item, Commissioner of the Revenue staff member April Crabtree requested that a career-development payment for an employee be backdated to Jan. 1 and that the remainder be included in the next fiscal budget; staff later clarified the requested transfer to cover the backpay was $16.46 and the motion to approve carried.
Appointment to incubator: The board moved to fill the unexpired term of Ben Harrell as the Virginia Highlands Small Business Incubator executive director with Sylvia (transcript shows inconsistent spellings "Robbins"…
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