From the Shelbyville News:
Shelby County employees will get a 3 percent raise next year or step increases to their current salaries, county officials said after adopting the 2013 budget last week.
The total budget -- $12,770,018 -- is 5.9 percent higher than 2012.
Shelby County Council member Tony Titus, R-At Large, was pleased the county budgeted the pay raises.
"I'm a big believer that county employees are underpaid for the hard work that they do," he said. "We haven't been able to do anything for the past couple of years but we were able to give out a bonus before Christmas last year. With a raise this year, I hope this helps."
Titus attributed the relative ease with which the council balanced the budget to fiscal responsibility.
"The department heads and employees took the tough step to do what they needed to do to hold the line on what they're doing," he said.
The council approved requests from the prosecutor's and auditor's offices to increase part-time positions into full-time ones, President Tom Debaun, R- 2nd District, said.
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The council shaved just more than $1 million from departmental increase requests during budget hearings last week to reach the final budget while approving a $319,000 increase for employee group insurance coverage bringing that expense to $600,000.
"We had put in a request for more insurance," County Commissioner Kevin Nigh, R-Center District, said.
"There really aren't significant changes," Debaun said. "For the most part it's pretty much the same as it was for 2012."
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