LaSalle County approves pay increases for school health services director and nursing home administrator

LaSalle County officials voted unanimously to increase two senior health-related positions' compensation during a meeting following an executive session. A motion to raise the school health services director's salary to $62,000 per year, effective Dec. 1, 2016, passed on a roll-call vote; later the board approved a $160,000 annual wage and three weeks' vacation for the nursing home administrator.

The first motion, to raise the school health services director's salary to $62,000 effective Dec. 1, 2016, drew affirmative roll-call votes from Joe, Mike, Kathy, James, Pat and the chair. The motion passed unanimously.

The second motion set the nursing home administrator's compensation at $160,000 per year with three weeks' vacation. Kathy moved the motion and James seconded. A roll-call vote recorded affirmative votes from Joe, Mike, Kathy, James, Pat and the chair; that motion also passed unanimously.

Both measures were presented as personnel actions during the board's regular business immediately after the executive session. The meeting record shows no recorded no votes, abstentions or recusals on either motion.

The moves will change the county payroll obligations for those positions; the transcript does not specify how the increases will be funded or whether budget amendments are required. Board members did not attach conditions or amendments to the votes in the meeting record.

The meeting moved on to routine bill approvals and other business. The board scheduled its next committee meeting for July 29, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.