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Court staff ask to restore pay raises; auditors warn of tax-rate effect
Summary
Judicial staff urged commissioners to reinstate raises for five court coordinators, offering to accept a 3% increase if 5% is unaffordable. County finance staff said restoring the pay lines would add recurring costs that affect the tax-rate calculation.
Court staff told the Potter County Commissioners Court they want to restore a pay increase for court coordinators that the judge had earlier removed from the draft budget. “We're asking for 5%, but in an effort to get along, if you did 3, we would sing your praises,” the court representative said.
County auditor Brandon explained the cost implications: “For a 3% adjustment to each court, it would be $4,729.77, including all variable fringes,” he said, and noted the total for the five posts would be roughly $23,648. He warned that those are recurring expenditures that feed directly into the tax-rate calculation and cannot simply be taken from fund balance without long-term consequences.
Commissioners debated fairness, with several urging care about giving targeted raises while other county employees had not sought the same adjustments. The court did not finalize the request; staff said Judge Tanner may still modify the proposed budget before the formal filing deadline and that the public hearing on the budget is scheduled for Aug. 25, 2025.
The matter remains under advisement; any change that restores the coordinator increases would be reflected in next steps ahead of the public hearing and the judge's final filing.
