Republican county commissioners in July voted 6-0 to give themselves $65,000 in COVID-19 hazard pay, part of an effort to distribute more than $500,000 in federal aid to 250 county employees.
Root and fellow Commissioner Cindy Garber, who got $5,000, defended the bonuses. But at least one commissioner said she had no idea that she had voted to reward herself until money turned up in her bank account.
Commissioners reversed course on July 23 and said they would return the money. Separately, a judge last week ordered the county to recover any bonus that exceeded $5,000 after a lawsuit claimed commissioners violated open meetings law when the money was approved.
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