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Madison County board weighs cutting 3% COLA to 2% and creating merit pool to fund targeted raises
Summary
At a special meeting, Madison County supervisors discussed reducing a planned 3% cost‑of‑living adjustment to 2% and using the savings to fund a merit-based pool to be awarded after November evaluations, a structure staff said can be budget neutral.
Madison County’s Board of Supervisors spent the bulk of a special meeting reviewing a staff proposal to reduce a proposed 3% cost‑of‑living adjustment (COLA) to 2% and to establish a midyear, performance‑based merit pool for FY27.
The option presented by staff would free roughly $90,000 by dropping the universal COLA from 3% to 2%, then create a merit pool that would be awarded on Jan. 1 based on November performance evaluations. Miss Warren, who presented the plan, said the arithmetic can be budget neutral when the midyear merit pool is sized to available savings and noted the sheriff’s office had a separate $38,000 request already included in staff…
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