Brown County employees and elected officials will be getting a pay raise. Brown County Commissioners met Monday morning, September 9. County Judge, Dr. Paul Lilly, presided. All County Commissioners were present along with County Clerk, County Attorney and a representative from the County Auditor’s office.
Commissioners Court voted 5-0 to approve a salary increase for county employees of $2,000 or 5%, whichever is greater as agreed upon in the budget workshop.
Commissioners also approved, on a 5-0 vote, a salary increase for all county elected officials in the amount of $2,000 each or 5%, whichever is greater.
The only exception to that will be Deputies in the Brown County Sheriff’s Department. Their salary increase will be $4,000 each to bring them closer to what other law enforcement agencies are paying their law officers and to improve employee retention. “The commissioned deputies, and I have to stress this is deputies only, will receive $4,000 a piece and the purpose for that is to try and bring our deputies into closer proximity with competing local agencies so that we lower the turnover rate which ultimately will save us money in equipment and time,” said Judge Lilly.
In other business, the Burn Ban remains in effect in Brown County. Commissioners also appointed David Alan Smith, M.D. to the Board of Trustees of Central Texas Mental Health Mental Retardation dba Center for Life Resources. In other action taken during the meeting:
- Constable fees were approved
- Sheriff fees were approved – housing inmates outside Brown Co. remains $45 per day
- County Clerk Records Archival fee was approved in the amount of $10
- Sheriff Vance Hill reported an inmate population of 181 inmates as of Monday morning, 15 of those being contracted to other counties. The maximum capacity of the Brown County Jail is 196.
(KOXE Photo – Brown Co. Commissioners shown in session on Monday, September 9th.)