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Show Commissioners criticized I feel the Davis County Commissioners are out of line. They vote themselves, as well as all other elected officials, 7.85 percent pay hike. This gave each of them approximately $3200 per year raise. With nine elected officials in county government, that amounts to $28,800 per year. They said they could grant these raises without a tax increase. Tax increase or not, it still comes from tax money. Do they really think Davis County tax payers are that dumb? Where do their wages come from? If they can't afford to work for $40,800 per year why don't they get another job? They even had. the audacity to give county employees a two percent cost of living raise. Wasn't that big-hearted of them? Recently defeated commissioner, Harry Gerlach, was openly criticized by opponents for giving himself abundant raises during dur-ing his tenure. It was never mentioned that commissioners Glen Saunders and Harold Tippets also voted for these raises. The interesting thing is that Commissioner Gerlach was not even present when Commissioners Saunders and Tippets voted for this raise. My question is, what makes these commissioners feel they need such a large raise? They were being paid $40,800 per year and have now raised themselves to $44,002. What would be wrong with giving themselves a two percent raise like they gave other county employees? Two percent of $40,800 is certainly considerably more than two percent of the average county employee's salary of approximately $18,000. These same commissioners are the ones who forced a $54,000,000 burn plant down the taxpayers throats and have been working on forcing a $27,000,000 law enforcement complex com-plex on us also. When will it end? Probably when we get rid of these commissioners. These are hard times with a large increase in state taxes. Did these commissioners feel they could give themselves these unreasonable un-reasonable raises and think the taxpayers will forget in another two years? That is when both Glen Saunders and Harold Tippets Tip-pets come up for re-election. Remember that voters. This taxpayer tax-payer will not forget. Glen W. Hunt Layton |