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Commissioners may get raise
By Brandi Hart, McKinney Courier-Gazette
Collin County elected officials, including the county commissioners, could get a 6.5 percent increase if the commissioners vote to give themselves and other elected officials a raise in the upcoming 2007-08 fiscal year.
The commissioners discussed the issue in a workshop, where they were presented preliminary figures for the 2007-08 fiscal year budget.
The commissioners currently receive $102,260 annually; County Judge Keith Self receives $135,069 annually; constables receive an average of $82,610 annually; Tax Assessor Collector Kenneth Maun receives $100,984 annually; County Clerk Stacey Kemp receives $93,316 annually; justices of the peace receive $85,587 annually; and Sheriff Terry Box receives $136,807 annually.
Self will not be one of the elected officials who will receive a pay raise as he said when he ran for office that he would not receive a pay raise in the four years of his term. He also told the commissioners that he wants to see county elected officials be paid on job performance, the same as the county employees.
Commissioner Joe Jaynes said all elected officials should “get what the employees get” because if they do not, then the commissioners and elected officials are operating with a different set of standards and it looks like a double standard.
Commissioner Jerry Hoagland asked Self to write a letter asking district judges Mark Rusch, John Roach Jr. and Cynthia Wheless, County Court at Law 4 Judge Ray Wheless, Justice of the Peace Paul Raleeh, and Maun to have their employees use badge readers to record their hours worked.
Hoagland wanted to wait to vote on compensation for county elected officials until after Self sends the letter to the six elected officials who are not “playing right” as in regards to not having all employees use the badge reader to calculate hours worked, he said. Hoagland also wants each elected official to present an operational chart explaining the functions and operations of their department to the commissioners.
The court will vote on a uniform pay policy that states that a county employee’s salary is based on 40 hours per week and that a time clock or badge reader shall be used to calculate the 40 hours worked.
Commissioners also looked over preliminary information for the 2007-08 budget. The current fiscal year is expected to have $3.99 million in revenue at the end of the fiscal year. The 2008 fiscal year should have an operating budget of $5.44 million, according to preliminary figures handed out at the meeting. The preliminary budget information also shows the county to currently have $770,000 in expenditures in indigent services and is expected to have $0.15 million in indigent services in 2008.
The court is slated to further discuss the budget and hear presentations from Sheriff Terry Box, constables, Fire Marshal Steve Deffibaugh, and the Homeland Security Department at a meeting that will begin at 9 a.m. today.
The commissioners also approved two public hearing dates for the 2007-08 budget at the meeting. The hearings will be at 9 a.m. Aug. 28 and 7 p.m. Sept. 4 at the Collin County Courthouse in the commissioners’ courtroom on the sixth floor, 210 McDonald St.
Contact staff writer Brandi Hart at hartb@acnpapers.com. To post comments online, access this story at www.scntx.com.
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