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By Nicholas M. Horrock
Rappahannock News StafT Writer
The Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors last Wednesday authorized a system of “longevity awards” that would mean as much as a 25 percent pay increase after 20 years of service for deputies of Constitutional Officers. The vote was unanimous.
The supervisors also authorized a $2,500 a year immediate salary supplement for Sharon Dodson a deputy in the county Revenue Office who was the lowest paid of the deputies. Her job, said County Administrator John McCarthy, was “uniquely underfunded.”
The longevity increases go into effect in the September pay check and affect at this time three deputies with sufficient length of service to qualify. Dodson’s raise also takes effect then.
But McCarthy said the longevity program was only a temporary solution and that soon Rappahannock will have to adopt a county-wide classification program that sorts out job descriptions, skill levels and pay to bring equity among all county workers.
“I would emphasize that ultimately, management of these actual and perceived pay issues will have to be through a salary schedule that cuts across all sources of staffing,” he said in his written proposal.
At a public hearing, McCarthy said “we can’t backfill
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