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Friday, October 21, 2011

Ind. Courts - Allen County Judges, magistrates dealt pay cut: County Council prunes probation staff; sheriff cries foul"

From Vivian Sade of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:

The Allen County Council approved pay cuts Thursday for 19 county judges and magistrates.

The council also moved the salaries of two probation officers out of the general fund, leaving court personnel to find other means to maintain those salaries and positions. And all sworn officers in the Allen County Sheriff’s Department will contribute 6 percent toward their retirement fund instead of the 3 percent they were paying. * * *

Allen County judges – who are paid mostly by the state – will each get a $5,000 annual cut in pay after council members voted to eliminate the county subsidies to their salaries. That, in turn, will also affect magistrates, Vogt said, who also will see pay cuts. The state pays county judges $125,647.

The move will save the county about $100,000, Vogt said, and the cuts amount to a salary decrease of about 3.9 percent for court officials.

Allen Superior Court Judge John Surbeck declined to comment.

ILB: Here are two stories on a similar effort made in 2006 in Grant County:

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 21, 2011 11:36 AM
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