Many County Employees Get Pay Raises
After meeting in special sessions Aug. 19, 26 and 30, the Glasscock County Commissioner’s Court approved a $1,200 raise for most elected officials and most full-time employees. Effective Oct. 1, the raises will cost the county $38,000, including benefits, according to County Treasurer Alan Dierschke. Part-time personnel are not included in the increase.
With the raises, benefits not included, county employees’ salaries are: Sheriff / Tax Collector Royce Pruit, $35,000 plus $13,700 as chief tax appraiser; deputies Ken Zunker and Keith Burnett each make $29,600 and Burnett is paid an additional $1,200 as jail custodian. Tisha Burnett and Leroy Hoelscher, county constable, are paid $1,200 each as jailers, and Hoelscher will draw a salary of $8,400 (no raise).
County Judge Wilburn Bednar will make $25,620 plus $10,000 state-paid supplement, plus $1,200 as the county’s Homeland Security Coordinator. County/District Clerk Rebecca Batla will make $29,300, and her deputy clerk, Susie Hillger, will get $25,100. Justice of the Peace Marilee Jost will make $17,400 plus $7,200 as the county judge’s secretary.
The four county commissioners will make $21,000 each: county treasurer Alan Dierschke will be paid $24,000 plus $6,000 as the water system manager. The county road crew, which consists of eight full-time and three part-time people, will be paid a combined $300,000, the same as last year, when there were more people on the crew.
The courthouse custodian, Diane Havlak, will make $19,000 (no raise); the extension agent for agriculture, Randy Rakowitz, will be paid a county supplement of $12,000 (no raise), while FCS extension agent Charlene Belew will get $14,500, having been given a raise earlier in the year, and extension services part-time secretary, Tracy Hollingsworth, will be paid $12,000. Extension entomologist Warren Multer is paid a county supplement of $2,000 (no raise). Part-time Emergency Management Coordinator Kenny Batla makes $6,000 and money is budgeted for three fire department chiefs at $1,200 each. Two contract predator control trappers (Richard Batla and Jody Griffith) are paid $21,600 each, while part-time employee Curtis Palmer makes $13,440 as the landfill overseer.
According to Dierschke, the county’s outlay for all salaries and benefits will total $1,078,913, or 41 percent of the budget.