Show Uintah County 78 budget hearing The annual budget hearing for Uintah County expenditures for the coming year will be held Monday December 5 according according ac ac- cording to County Commissioners Commissioners Com missioners The hearing will be beheld beheld beheld held in the commission room starting at 2 pm p.m. The final 1978 budget adoption hearing will be beheld beheld beheld held Dec I la 12 At a hearing Monday where a 7 percent across the board salary and wage increase was proposed most of those present agreed that the raise was justified because of the inflated economy One person said the raise was just justified for everyone except the elected officials and they should remain at the rate they received when elected The Commissioners disagreed that they should not n raise se their own wages and plan to include themselves in the 7 percent increase Fringe benefits to county employees equals about 27 to 30 percent of the wage stated County Clerk Morris Cook Several county employees said they would rather have an increase increase in in- crease in fringe benefits but the commissioners said they thought an overall cost of living raise was more equitable County departments have not all finalized their requests for their 1978 budgets pending the outcome of Mondays Monday's proposed increase in wages and salaries The proposed budget will contain funding for the raises which are scheduled to begin Jan 1 said the commissioners |