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Show Mr. Stoddard misquoted In the Dec. 1 1 issue of the Davis County Clipper, Howard Stoddard was misquoted in an article about the 1987 county budget hearing. The article said the West Point councilman opposed the two percent per-cent salary increase for county employees. em-ployees. Actually, Mr. Stoddard supports the two percent increase for county employees, but opposes the 7.84 percent increase in salary for commissioners and elected officials. offi-cials. In the last two years the wage and fringe benefits for the Davis County commissioners have increased in-creased 22. percent, according to Mr. Stoddard. Since 1982 wage and fringe benefits for the commissioners commis-sioners have increased 75.66 percent per-cent or an average of 12.61 percent each year, he said. The increase was justified by comparing Davis County salaries to similar official's incomes in Weber We-ber and Salt Lake counties, Mr. Stoddard said. "But we are not getting some of that new economic development that Salt Lake and Weber counties are getting," he said. "We've just got to get back to the point of paying our elected officials what Davis County residents can pay them." |