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Show Hearing for county budget set The Summit County Commission is working on final revisions this week to its 1986 budget, which is slightly smaller than last year and includes an employee pay freeze. The county public hearing on the budget will be held on Monday, Dec. 16, at 6 p.m. in the downstairs courtroom cour-troom of the Summit County Courthouse Cour-thouse in Coalville. At press time, the tentative general fund budget figure was $6,584,158, compared to $6,997,788 last year, according to Summit County ClerkAuditor Reed Pace. Pace said at press time that he did not know what change, if any, would occur in the county's mill levy . . Despite the wage freeze, there were some salary adjustments ' made after the county's wages were studied by a consulting firm and a committee of county citizens. The consultants drew up a list of job classifications and recommended wage scales for them. Pace said wage adjustments were made for about half the employees. The job study, however, did not in clude elected officials in the county. The county commission suggested a 1.3 percent increase for elected coun- ty officials. But the increase was unanimously rejected by the elected -department heads, said Pace,, because a similar increase was not going to their staffers. 5 County commissioner Stan Leavitt ; said the county has granted cost-of-living increases in the past,' but evidence this year showed that;; across-the-board salary increases aren't being made in comparable counties or in Drivate industry, v |