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County officials seek modest pay increases and staffing adjustments as departments submit mostly steady budgets
Summary
During the June 11 Titus County budget workshop, several elected officials and department heads proposed modest cost-of-living raises, a higher part-time pay rate to recruit bilingual staff, and routine software and maintenance spending; most departmental budgets remained unchanged.
At the June 11 Titus County Commissioners Court budget workshop, county elected officials and department heads presented largely steady budget requests while several asked the court to consider modest salary adjustments and staffing changes.
A clerk participating in the workshop (identified in the transcript as Miss Carol) asked to combine jury supplies with office expenses after switching to a web-based jury system and said she would need a $1,242.50 bond in January when re-bonding as an elected official. She also asked the court to approve raising the part-time hire rate to $15 an hour to make it easier to recruit a bilingual employee and requested a 5% raise for deputies in her office due to rising workloads.
An IT staffer (Miss Monica) requested only routine software-maintenance increases and said capital outlay would not be required after a recent server replacement; she also asked that elected-official salaries be aligned with commissioners. Juvenile probation reported stable numbers and no new budget requests, noting that retention improved this year but that population can change quickly.
Commissioners discussed a countywide 5% cost-of-living increase proposal for employees and noted that some elected officials seek salary alignment with the commissioner's pay; no formal votes were taken during the workshop. The court reiterated this workshop was a preliminary "wish list" stage and that staff will prepare the consolidated budget for formal consideration and a later vote.
The meeting adjourned after the presentations and preliminary discussions; commissioners will return to budget deliberations and formal appropriations at upcoming scheduled meetings.
