Editor’s Note: Supervisor Dean Schettler references a 5 percent pay increase for Carroll Police Chief, Brad Burke. That number is inaccurate, Chief Burke received a 3 percent pay increase last fiscal year and that amount is determined annually. As of this date, the amount of any pay increases for the next fiscal year for Burke have not yet been determined.
A good portion of this morning’s (Monday) Carroll County Board of Supervisor meeting revolved around compensation for elected officials as well as for the supervisors and non-union employees for the next fiscal year. The conversation started with the recent Carroll County Compensation Board recommendation that the sheriff receive a six percent increase and all other elected officials four percent. The union employees are in the second year of a two-year contract at 2.5 percent. Chair, Gene Meiners, says he believes this is not the year to do anything major and comp boards from the region have been all over the map with what they are recommending; from nothing to a straight five percent or even stipends.