Cherokee County Commission Meeting is Standing Room Only

Comm 11Monday’s meeting of the Cherokee County Commission was a standing room only affair.

Cherokee County Sheriff Jeff Shaver addressed the commission during the planning session

At that time, the sheriff presented the commission with a check in the amount of $65,000 to cover the request for his employee’s pay raise for the next several months; that money was derived from the sale of surplus equipment requisitioned through the federal government.

Comm 1Commissioner Marcie Foster asked that the measure for the sheriff’s office be placed on the agenda for action. Commissioner Kimball Parker, on the other hand, asked for the measure to be addressed during their upcoming budget meetings which will actually be taking place over the next three months

During the regular meeting, Commissioner Foster made a motion to give that pay raise, and adopt the adjusted pay scale for the next three months, using the funds provided by Sheriff Shaver.

The measure died for lack of a second.

WEIS Radio News spoke with Commissioner Foster after the meeting – getting her reaction to the pay scale increase not being instituted:

Foster was asked if continuing to fund the raise in pay would be difficult:

Foster suggested cutting non-essential expenses, such as donations to organizations which could be funded through sources other than the county commission

Sheriff Shaver summed up the issue this way:

We also spoke with County Commission Chairman Kirk Day following Monday’s meeting:

We’ll continue to follow this story as new developments occur.

The next meeting of the Cherokee County Commission is scheduled for Monday July 13th at 10:00am in the County Administration Building in Centre.

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