During the public comment session at tonight’s Bill as a private citizen made the following statement. Nonetheless the county budget was approved 8-2. Mr. Johnson was absent and Mr. Mattison’s seat left unoccupied due to his recent resignation.
Boone County Board:
The increase in salary for item #401.151 County Administrator is out of line with the yearly increases granted to other administrative staff of his office. Mr. Terrinoni’s salary is increased $14,336 OR 13.6%. Salaries of the other members of his administrative staff increased 2.5%. That is a 5 and half times increase compared to his personal staff’s. This appears excessive.
The real outrage of the situation is the statement made by committee members that Mr. Terrinoini’s salary was increase to put it in line with other county administrators. I asked Mr. Larson to see their studies regarding this matter. He stated only that DeKalb County Administrator, now retired, received $160,000 per year. DeKalb is twice the size of Boone County and its administrator may have responsibilities twice as great as Mr. Terrinoni.
I request that Mr. Terrinoni’s salary increase be limited to 5% as the other department heads and that the remaining expenditure be held in a contingency account until the county board can adequately study if such a large increase is warranted. In other words, I request that item #401.151 be amended to $110,947 and the remaining $9,053 be held in the account for contingencies.
Thank you for your consideration.
BILL PYSSON
The above statement was also sent to the Editor of the Boone County Journal. As a letter to the editor it is available in the Journal beginning this Friday and also on line at: http://www.boonecountyjournal.com/news/2012/Boone-County-News-11-23-12.pdf#page=1
