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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Ind. Gov't. - "County kills vote to trim judges’ pay: Council also rescinds decision to alter police retirement fund"
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 4, 2011, Vivian Sade of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette writes in a story dated Nov. 18th:
The Allen County Council rescinded three last-minute decisions that would have cut judges’ and magistrates’ pay and doubled the contributions that sworn police officers make to their retirement funds.The decisions – made in October after budget hearings were conducted in September – drew criticism from department heads and several council members. * * *
Allen County judges, who receive the bulk of their pay from the state, would have each received a $5,000 annual cut in pay after the county subsidies were eliminated. Magistrates also would have been affected, with each taking a $4,000 hit to their salaries. The state pays county judges $125,647 annually. The Indiana Constitution forbids cutting the pay of a Circuit Court judge in midterm.
The legality of the decisions was questioned immediately by court officials and members of the Allen County Sheriff’s Department Merit Board, which oversees the officers’ retirement fund.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 20, 2011 02:02 PM
Posted to Indiana Government