Supervisors get 2 percent raise in 2012 budget
NORWICH – Chenango County’s $84.65 million proposed spending plan for next year includes 2 percent raises for supervisors and department directors, despite a disagreement last month on the compensation amount.
Preston Supervisor Peter C. Flanagan did not pull a resolution that fixed salaries at yesterday’s meeting of the county board. His proposal to freeze supervisors’ raises last month and a subsequent motion from fellow Democrat Richard Schlag of German to lower supervisors’ and department directors’ raises from 2 to 1.5 percent both failed to garner enough votes to pass. As a result, the original proposal offered by the county’s personnel committee came before the board again this month.
Flanagan said he didn’t think he had the votes to contest the resolution again yesterday.
A public hearing to establish the tentative 2012 Chenango County budget was set for 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 29 in the newly-appointed supervisors’ chambers of the former social services department wing of the County Office Building in Norwich.
In other board action, Shawn G. Fry was appointed acting director of the Chenango County Public Works Department, effective immediately through the end of the year. He will assume the duties of DPW Director Randy Gibbon, who is retiring after 36 years in that role. Lawmakers set the annual salary for the position at $69,000.
Coventry Supervisor John Phelan questioned whether members of the Chenango County Public Works Committee would consider the applications of six other candidates who have applied for the job. Board Chairman Richard B. Decker, R-North Norwich, said the committee had until the end of the year to decide who they want to hire to replace Gibbon permanently.
The board also accepted the resignation of Veterans Affairs Services Director Joseph W. Coe, effective at the end of the month. Coe has served in that capacity for Chenango County since 2000.
Clerk of the Board RC Woodford said a resolution to authorize Cornell Cooperative Extension Services to hire a grazing specialist had been referred to the county’s finance committee for further review.
Preston Supervisor Peter C. Flanagan did not pull a resolution that fixed salaries at yesterday’s meeting of the county board. His proposal to freeze supervisors’ raises last month and a subsequent motion from fellow Democrat Richard Schlag of German to lower supervisors’ and department directors’ raises from 2 to 1.5 percent both failed to garner enough votes to pass. As a result, the original proposal offered by the county’s personnel committee came before the board again this month.
Flanagan said he didn’t think he had the votes to contest the resolution again yesterday.
A public hearing to establish the tentative 2012 Chenango County budget was set for 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 29 in the newly-appointed supervisors’ chambers of the former social services department wing of the County Office Building in Norwich.
In other board action, Shawn G. Fry was appointed acting director of the Chenango County Public Works Department, effective immediately through the end of the year. He will assume the duties of DPW Director Randy Gibbon, who is retiring after 36 years in that role. Lawmakers set the annual salary for the position at $69,000.
Coventry Supervisor John Phelan questioned whether members of the Chenango County Public Works Committee would consider the applications of six other candidates who have applied for the job. Board Chairman Richard B. Decker, R-North Norwich, said the committee had until the end of the year to decide who they want to hire to replace Gibbon permanently.
The board also accepted the resignation of Veterans Affairs Services Director Joseph W. Coe, effective at the end of the month. Coe has served in that capacity for Chenango County since 2000.
Clerk of the Board RC Woodford said a resolution to authorize Cornell Cooperative Extension Services to hire a grazing specialist had been referred to the county’s finance committee for further review.
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