County budget participants debated differential pay and unpaid mileage for county attorneys during a meeting in which staff and other participants reviewed salary lines.
A participant said the differential pay “initially…was supposed to be a temporary thing to help Marty get more employees” and that the contract language may make the differential permanent. "The differential pay that the county attorneys received, I understand that initially that that was, I think, supposed to be a temporary thing to help Marty get more employees because he was lacking in employees," Speaker 3 said.
The same participant also said mileage reimbursements were not paid under the prior manager: "Mister Piccolo never paid for mileage for anyone, and so that's why that 1 has always been low." Another participant noted that county attorneys are on call and that after-hours duties can ‘‘entail quite a bit of time and effort, outside their normal responsibilities.”
Why it matters: whether pay differentials are temporary or permanent affects salary baselines and future budget calculations; unpaid mileage and overtime concerns can affect employee reimbursements and department morale.
Discussion in the transcript focused on clarifying contract language and past practice; no motion or vote to change pay policies or to retroactively reimburse mileage appears in the provided excerpts.
The transcript named individual employees (Monica, Emily, Leticia and Jesse) as being part of salary requests but did not assign roles or present a formal motion to adjust pay for those persons during the excerpt provided.
Participants asked for follow-up and further clarification rather than adopting immediate changes.