County Executive Salary Adjustment

County Executive Salary Amendment
The County Executive salary can only be changed once every 4 years, before the upcoming election for that position. A pay recommendation of a 7.3% pay raise for 2009, followed by a 3% pay raise for the next three years was presented to the County Board at their December 4th meeting. The pay rate was recommended so that the County Executive pay would be higher than the County Sheriff, based on the relative responsibilities of these positions. However, given the state of the current economy, and the fact that we were not able to grant point of service (POS) organizations with even a full 1% pay raise in the recently passed budget, I made an amendment that was passed by the Board that would reduce the salary increase for the County Executive for the first year to 1% to match that of the POS agencies. The subsequent 3% pay raises for the following three years remained, in anticipation that the economy will turn around and we will be able to give cost of living adjustments to the POS agencies at that time as well.