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Show Davis May Hold On COL Increases By CLINT WARDLOW FARMINGTON - Davis County employees will be denied de-nied across-the-board cost-of-living salary increases when the 1983 county budget goes into effect. HOWEVER, the county may pick-up the employees' share of the retirement program prog-ram constituting 3.95 increase in employees salaries, said auditor au-ditor Ludeen G. Gibbons. The retirement pay has been taken directly from the employees em-ployees pay check in the past, said Ludeen, but new legislation legisla-tion enables the county to pay for the retirement plan. BEFORE any decision can be made on the plan, Ms. Gibbons Gib-bons said the budgets for each department must be tabulated to find out if the county can afford to pick up the retirement tab. Merit increases can also be granted to deserving employees, em-ployees, Ms. Gibbons pointed out. Merit increases would come to 3.5 percent, and employees em-ployees would have to undergo evaluation before receiving the increases on the anniversary anniver-sary of the date they were hired, Ms. Gibbons said. THE SALARY limitations are a result of tighter budgeting for 1983, Ms. Gibbons said. The county is limited to increasing in-creasing property taxes by only six percent under tax-limitation tax-limitation guidelines approved by the state legislation. Another three percent increase in-crease is allowed to account for population growth, making the entire tax increase -nine percent, Ms. Gibbons said. Budget request were due into the auditor's office on Oct. 1, but problems with the computers have delayed computations com-putations of budgeting each departments, said Ms. Gibbons. Gib-bons. The budgets will have to be figured out before the final decision can be made on the retirement pay, said Ms. Gibbons. Gib-bons. MS. GIBBONS said computations com-putations of department budgets should be completed with-in the next two weeks, allowing for a decision to be made on the employee pay increase. in-crease. The county general fund cannot exceed $10.5 million for the 1983 year. The county has operated on a 9.7 million budget for the '82 year said Gibbons. |