County Legislature Passes Measure to Adjust Management Salary Ranges

Chautauqua County lawmakers recently okayed an amendment to a local law, modifying salary ranges assigned to county managers, based on cost of living. During last month's legislature meeting in Mayville, that amendment passed in an 11-6 vote. Jamestown Democrat Tom Nelson, one of the co-sponsors, says he supported it when it entered committee, but he had a change of heart after doing more research, saying the negatives outweigh the positives...

Tom Nelson: concern over committing to annual increases

Dunkirk Democrat Robert Bankoski believes the county needs to get its salary ranges "in check" first...

Robert Bankoski: get salary ranges in control before COLA

Republican lawmakers Dalton Anthony of Frewsburg and Fred Johnson of Westfield clarified that any actual salary raises would be based on job performance. The amendment takes effect January 1st.

File photo; audio from Chautauqua County Government