Peoria County Board Vote to Freeze Some of Their Own Pay
By: WMBD/WYZZ TV Newsroom
Updated: May 10, 2012
PEORIA-Peoria
County Board members tonight voted to freeze their own pay and that of four countywide
elected officials.
The proposal freezes the salary of the auditor, circuit clerk, coroner and recorder of deeds at a little more than $88,000 for the upcoming year.
Small
raises would come in each of the following three years.
The pay for
each office would top out at a little more than $94,000 in 2016.
Members of
the board's management services committee agreed to the freeze last week based
on economic conditions within the county.
Peoria
County Board Member, Carol Trumpe said, "It really is about fiscal
prudence. We are facing a shortfall of perhaps 2 million dollars coming up and
we want to be careful in all of our expenditures."
The County
Board Chairman, who hasn't had a raise in 20 years is getting a $4,000
raise the first year.
Other countywide officeholders elected in 2010
also had their salaries frozen for the first year of their terms.
