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Commissioners vote to cut own pay

   May 13, 2009

Not in Escambia or Santa Rosa counties. It is in Pinellas County where the commissioners voted 4-3 during a budget workshop to cut their salaries by 4 percent next year—a $3,638 cut.

According to the St. Pete Times, the county faces an $85 million budget shortfall next year, and hundreds of layoffs. Pay-cut opponents supported cutting the number of commissioners’ aides from eight employees to five. Employees are not receiving raises or, as yet, pay cuts for next year.

Last year, Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson proposed a similar pay cut for the BOCC. He failed to get a second.

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