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Court administrator seeks pay bump for probation director and flags MIDC grant increase
Summary
Court Administrator Michelle Adkins asked the council to raise the probation director’s salary to $70,000 to better align with local court pay scales, detailed judges’ and staff salaries (judges’ $91,448 fully reimbursed by the state), and said the MIDC grant for court-appointed attorney fees is expected to rise to $600,006.59.
Michelle Adkins, the city’s court administrator, asked the council to amend the personnel budget to raise the probation director’s salary to $70,000, saying the role is “very low on the salary wage cycle” compared with comparable courts. “We do have an amendment we wanna request … we wanna ask to put it to 70,000 just to try to get him somewhat closer to that average,” Adkins said.
Adkins reviewed court staffing and pay lines, noting the two judges’ salaries…
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