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Highway director requests deferred-comp payout policy and spot-bonus pool to retain staff
Summary
The highway director asked commissioners for higher tire and deferred-comp lines and proposed a controlled bonus program (parameters suggested) to retain employees; he also requested modest software/permitting increases tied to a new online permit system.
The county highway director requested increases to tire replacement and maintenance lines and proposed a mechanism to reduce comp-time accrual by offering either payouts or mandatory timeoff. He also proposed a small spot-bonus program to reward exceptional employees, suggesting a $100–$1,000 per-award range with fiscal caps to prevent abuse.
On permitting, the director noted plans to add an iWORKS permitting module to allow paid online permits for road cuts and fiber installations; that change would add a modest software cost but create a revenue stream and allow partial reimbursement of a dedicated staff position to manage permits. "I'm asking for 14,000, $14,000, and, basically, I just kinda went to every employee I had," the director said when describing seed funding for a recognition program.
