Clinton County Commissioners on Jan. 2 approved a series of routine and substantive items ranging from vendor contracts and program funding to labor agreements that raise sheriff deputies’ starting pay and amend leave policies for several employee groups.

The commissioners voted to allocate $195,861 to the Central Counties Youth Center for the 2025 calendar year, approve a $262.67-per-month fair-market-value lease and maintenance contract for a Sharp copier for county probation, and renew the county’s Granicus website maintenance, hosting and licensing agreement for $5,202.37 for March 17, 2025, through March 16, 2026. The board also approved a $30,000 funding commitment for the county’s agricultural preservation program.

The board approved two memorandums of understanding with Council 86 of AFSCME. One MOU amends the collective bargaining agreement for court-related and court-appointed employees to change vacation, sick and personal holiday policies, raises sheriff deputies’ starting pay by $975 annually effective with the first 2025 pay period, and extends the current collective bargaining agreement through Dec. 31, 2026. The other MOU amends the collective bargaining agreement for corrections officers and maintenance workers at the Clinton County Correctional Facility to revise vacation, sick and personal holiday policies.

The commissioners accepted the resignation of Mary George Roan from the Clinton County Housing Authority effective Dec. 31, 2024, and appointed Tina Daevor to the authority for a five-year term ending Dec. 31, 2029. The board also considered and approved appointments of the county’s chief clerk, solicitor and chief assessor effective Jan. 1, 2025, and approved assignments of commissioners to boards and authorities for 2025.

The meeting then adjourned to convene the county salary board. On the salary-board agenda was a motion to increase pay by $0.50 per hour for all full-time, non-elected county employees who are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement. The provided transcript records the motion to consider that increase but does not record a second or final vote in the excerpt supplied.

Votes at a glance: approved items recorded in the transcript
- Approval of minutes for the Dec. 19, 2024 commissioners meeting — approved (record: “So moved.” “Second.” “Aye.”).
- Appointment of chief clerk, solicitor and chief assessor effective Jan. 1, 2025 — approved.
- Assignment of commissioner representatives to boards and authorities for 2025 — approved.
- Owner-county agreement: Central Counties Youth Center, Clinton County allocation $195,861 for 01/01/2025–12/31/2025 (paid in four installments of $48,965.25) — approved.
- Lease: Sharp copier (fair market value with maintenance) for Clinton County Probation, $262.67 monthly — approved.
- Renewal: Granicus website maintenance/hosting/licensing, 03/17/2025–03/16/2026, $5,202.37 — approved.
- Agricultural preservation program funding commitment (described in the transcript as “2020 by funding commitment”), $30,000 — approved.
- Memorandum of understanding with Council 86 of AFSCME (court-related and court-appointed employees), including leave policy amendments, $975 annual increase for sheriff deputies effective first pay period of 2025, and extension of CBA through 12/31/2026 — approved.
- Memorandum of understanding with Council 86 of AFSCME (corrections officers and maintenance workers at Clinton County Correctional Facility), including leave policy amendments — approved.
- Resignation of Mary George Roan from the Clinton County Housing Authority effective 12/31/2024 — accepted.
- Appointment of Tina Daevor to the Clinton County Housing Authority, term through 12/31/2029 — approved.

Many motions in the transcript are recorded as “So moved,” “Second,” and “Aye,” but the excerpt does not include a roll-call with individual commissioner names for each vote. Where a specific effective date, dollar amount, term length or vendor was stated in the transcript, it is reported here using the board’s language. The salary-board proposal to increase non-bargained full-time employee pay by $0.50 per hour appears on the salary-board agenda and was moved for consideration; the transcript excerpt does not show a completed vote on that item.

The board’s actions on the MOUs change leave and compensation language for several bargaining units and include a targeted pay increase for sheriff deputies intended to take effect in early 2025. The transcript does not include implementing language (for example specific payroll adjustments or budget ordinance references) beyond the MOUs recorded in the meeting.

Clinton County officials did not provide additional public-comment excerpts or staff memos in the supplied transcript; follow-up materials such as full agreement texts, payroll implementation schedules, and any department-level budget adjustments were not included in the excerpt.