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County Council makes last-minute adjustments to employee salaries

About 20 Huntington County employees got their pay raises in the nick of time, after the Huntington County Council approved a change in the salary ordinance to give them the money.

The council met in a six-minute special session on Thursday, Jan. 9, and unanimously approved the housekeeping measure, said County Auditor Cindy Yeiter.
They also approved a transfer of funds for one position.
The council was to have met on Monday, Jan. 6, but inclement weather pushed the meeting back, causing a last-minute rush to make the county's Jan. 10 payroll.
Yeiter explains that the action was the equivalent of "jumping through hoops" with state statutes, which require that a county's budget and salary ordinance line up.

"We put everything as it should be, but because the salary ordinance was not ‘kosher,' we had to have that meeting," she says. "The money is in the budget; it's just that the salary ordinance did not agree with what they (county employees) were getting paid."

Yeiter says the bad timing caused for some frantic moments in the auditor's office.

"My payroll gal worked from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday when she was not supposed to be in here due to the courthouse being closed, but unfortunately we have to do what we have to do," she says.

On payday, Yeiter says workers reported that the raises were reflected in the money that was automatically deposited into their bank accounts.