Commissioners consider pay-grade changes to raise low-end salaries; estimated $51,300 impact
Freestone County commissioners debated a proposal to raise several salary grades (eliminating grade 1 and bumping lower grades), affecting about 21 positions with an estimated total cost of roughly $51,300 including benefits; the motion was made and seconded but the court recessed to get updated payroll prints before final action.
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Freestone County commissioners spent the bulk of their agenda item 18 reviewing a proposed adjustment to the county pay scale intended to raise lower-end salaries. Staff presented a plan that would raise many grades by $2,000 — for example, moving grade 1 from $31,200 to $33,200 and grade 2 from $33,200 to $35,200 — and showed how that change would affect specific positions (dispatchers, JP clerks and other single-clerk offices). Commissioners discussed fairness between offices with long-tenured workers and those that are single-staffed and stressed a phased approach to avoid a sudden budget shock.
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