By Mid Hudson News -www.midhudsonnews.com
Dec 14, 2020
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POUGHKEEPSIE- Members of the Dutchess County Legislature are scheduled to receive a $477 raise in 2021 while county employees will not be receiving raises due to financial woes created by the pandemic. Thirteen lawmakers are pledging to donate their raises to charities of their choice.
In 2019, the prior legislative body approved a three percent increase for the 2021 calendar year. The 2019 action scheduled legislators’ salaries to be raised from $15,914 to $16,391. State and Dutchess County laws prohibited the current legislature from changing their own salary in the 2021 county budget.