Nelson County Sheriff’s Office employees, public safety dispatchers and county staff will receive raises after a recent board of supervisors vote. The salary adjustments, effective July 1, are achieved using vacancy savings within the fiscal year 2023 budget.
The salary improvements, which Interim County Administrator Candy McGarry proposed to the board July 12, come after the board’s adoption and appropriation of a 2023 county budget.
The board voted June 27 to adopt a budget without an additional $1 million it previously committed to the school division, instead providing a total contribution to the schools of $17.1 million, $1.5 million over its fiscal year 2022 education funding.
McGarry had expressed concern to the board before its June 27 vote about the school board’s intention to use its then $2.5 million funding increase to raise the division’s minimum wage to $17 per hour.
McGarry cautioned the board about potential “equity issues” between county and schools’ employees if the school raised its minimum wage and about the board using the remainder of the county’s recurring contingency, or leftover recurring revenue, to fund the schools. She asked the board how it would address cost of living adjustments or salary increases for county staff that might arise from a current compensation study.
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