County budget committee floats a flat raise for every employee instead of stipends — no decision made
Who it touches
- Vigo County government employees
Tracked in the archive
A committee member proposed giving every Vigo County employee the same flat-dollar raise instead of separate percentage raises or one-off job stipends, arguing it would help lower-paid workers more than a percentage raise would and would keep the pay gap between the lowest- and highest-paid county employees from growing (31:33,. 0:32:16 — open the recording, cued to 32 minutes 16 seconds
The member also said he would not vote to give elected officials a raise and asked that any elected-official raise be voted on separately from employee raises. 0:42:03 — open the recording, cued to 42 minutes 3 seconds
The committee also said it still owes a favorable-or-unfavorable recommendation on pending grade-change or stipend requests from the auditor's, clerk's, community corrections, surveyor's, and treasurer's offices, and is holding those open until it settles this broader pay-policy question. 1:23:16 — open the recording, cued to 1 hour 23 minutes 16 seconds
More from the record
- Committee member pitches a flat raise, 31:330:31:33 (31 minutes 33 seconds)
- Conversation to continue later, 56:160:56:16 (56 minutes 16 seconds)
Outcome
No vote taken; discussion to continue at a future meeting
No vote was taken; the committee left the idea open and said the conversation would continue at a future meeting, with no date set (56:16).
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