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County board rejects, declines to act on appointments
Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com
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EDWARDSVILLE – The Madison County Board rejected one appointment and declined to act on several others at Wednesday’s board meeting.
The reappointment of David Schwind to Madison County Flood Prevention for a new three-year term failed on an 11-17 vote.
The appointments of Donald Sawicki to the Flood Prevention Board, Cedric Irby to replace Ron Jedda on the Madison County Transit District Board, and Nick Mason to replace Nathan Kincade on the Wood River Drainage & Levee District, died for lack of a motion.
Those three appointments had been tabled from last month’s meeting over complaints by several board members that a new county administrator and IT director had not been appointed. Those positions were filled during a special meeting last week.
Pike sorting county pay issues
Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree, Journal-Courier
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The back pay issue arose from the Circuit Clerk’s office, county board Chairman Jim Sheppard said.
According to the contract between the county and courthouse employees, employees are only supposed to work 32.5 hours a week, though many work more hours to provide coverage during the courthouse’s regular business hours.
“We had a new circuit clerk and he was told those hours were factored in to their pay, so he told them to stop tracking their comp time,” Sheppard said.
But the hours for that department were not, in fact, factored into employees’ pay.
The Baxter County Circuit Court jury panel will need to report for jury duty at 9 a.m. Monday.
According to the Baxter County and Circuit Clerk’s Office, the reporting location has been moved to the Educational Building of the Baxter County Fairgrounds, located on Fairgrounds Drive in Mountain Home.
Face masks will be required and social distancing will be enforced.
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