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a classification program, eight months into the year.”
Peggy Ralph, a deputy in the Rappahannock County Circuit Court clerk’s office spoke for the others: “We’re happy to put this to rest for a while.” She and the other deputies had hoped for a direct pay supplement and having the program made retroactive until July 1.
Ralph said the whole group applauded the supplement for Dodson as “well deserved” for her service and skills.
The deputies complained officially to the Board of Supervisors last July after sheriffs deputies, many of them women with dispatch and jail matron positions, received an across the board pay supplement on top of longevity pay and a Law Enforcement Officer’s retirement supplement.
McCarthy was assigned to study the issue. Though he rejected a pay supplement, he acknowledged in his report that these positions have “compensation rates, which lag behind both law enforcement deputies and county positions.”
McCarthy said the law enforcement salary improvements had been justified to keep sheriffs deputies from being recruited by higher paying counties after Rappahannock paid for their training.
But he did acknowledge that the county had a “resource of experience and competence” among the women deputies “that cannot be replaced by sim
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