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In addition, commissioner of revenue Merle Scoggin received a ten percent pay hike from the State Compensation, pushing her salary to $22,522.
Cox dropped the $5,000 allocation for board of assessors from the preliminary budget. “And if we have to have a new assessment, we can plug something back in there,” he joked, referring to the county’s recent difficulties with its reassessment, separate story).
The treasurer’s budget requests show a $6,182 increase over the current year, Cox said, attributing the increase to the ten percent pay hike awarded by the compensation board (bringing Frances Foster’s salary to $22,522) and the rise in fringe benefits with accompanies any uppage in pay.
The auditor gave the same explanation for the $5,285 increase for the commonwealth’s attorney’s office.
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