From the Terre Haute Tribune-Star:
Vigo County employees will receive the equivalent of a 5-percent pay raise in the county’s final 2013 budget.
It marks the second consecutive year county workers will receive a pay increase. Employees did not receive a pay increase in 2010 and 2011.
The raise came as the Vigo County Council approved a final budget Tuesday. The budget next will go before the Department of Local Government Finance for final review.
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The council approved a 2013 budget of $53,606,331. That is more than $4.6 million less than a proposed budget in early August.
The council denied a $3 million request from the Rainy Day Fund by the Vigo County Commissioners, cutting that amount to $400,000. The money was sought for the county’s highway department and road repair.
The 2013 budget also does not include funding for the Vigo County Air Pollution Control Department. The measure, which cut the department’s three remaining positions from the county payroll, saved the county $222,656. However, the council did place an additional $59,000 in its budget for unemployment claims next year.
The County Council’s biggest reduction was actually a shift to newly separated funding source. The State Board of Accounts this year instructed all counties to move the County Adjusted Gross Income Tax, or CAGIT, into its own separate fund.
The council reduced the county’s general fund by $3.6 million, designating that those funds come from CAGIT. That money will fund public safety, including salaries of deputy sheriffs. The exception is the 2013 salary of Vigo County Sheriff Greg Ewing, which by law must be paid from the general fund. The sheriff will earn $135,080 in 2013.
http://tribstar.com/local/x1023278469/Council-OKs-5-percent-pay-increase-for-county-employees
