6 County Commission Members Go Along With Effort To Be Able To Set Their Own Pay Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Six Hamilton County Commission members have signed a document saying they want the Legislature to change the law that ties their pay to that of the county mayor.
If approved by the Legislature, the commissioners would then be able to set their own pay.
Signing the letter were David Sharpe, Warren Mackey, Tim Boyd, Katherlyn Geter, Chester Bankston and Randy Fairbanks.
Not signing were Chairman Chip Baker, Greg Martin and Sabrena Smedley.
Commissioner Fairbanks said, The six years I have been on the Commission, we have given our county employees a raise in five of those years. Our employees are a valuable asset to Hamilton County and deserved all of those raises. The problem I have is every time we give our employees a raise, the county commissioners also get a raise, because of a resolution that was passed several years ago. That is a backdoor way of giving o