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Wage study preliminary data turned in to county board

It was revealed during the Knox County Finance Committee Wednesday night that preliminary data is in for a wage compensation study that board members approved back in May of 2017.

PayPoint HR had been approved to study both union and non-union job descriptions to create appropriate pay scales for all county employees.

The study had been delayed for several months. One issue that arose during the year was the lack of participation from certain departments in the county.

Another issue was comparing job positions and descriptions to that of other counties, which may have similar jobs with less or more responsibilities. Robin Davis, Knox County Treasurer, told finance committee members that that was the hardest part of the study from PayPoint’s perspective.

“They sent everybody’s, that had complied, their descriptions back. Knox County’s job titles, what they found a comparable job title and then what the description was,” Davis told the committee. “And the department heads were to verify that that still encompassed their job. And it was hard to get department heads to condense their descriptions.”

Davis added that the information is in and they’re looking through it to verify it is “good viable information.”

The committee also discussed a new resolution regarding changes to court fees that were coming down from the state level.

David Amor, Finance Committee Chair, told committee members that due to differences in court fees throughout Illinois, the Illinois Supreme Court passed a new court fee schedule to create more standardization.

“This will become much more standard. It will require of us, for this to happen, the passage of a resolution because our previous resolutions, approving where court fees are going, will be null and void basically as part of the legislation.”

A draft was given to committee members but Amor said that the resolution was still a work in progress.

Much of the committee chair’s presentation was spent on the funds that benefit from the court costs and how the new legislation would affect them.

The committee did approve to bid and bring back telephone services for the courthouse. Knox County Clerk Scott Erickson said that with the issue of the 911 line getting cut several months ago, the county wanted to look out there to see what was available that may have more redundancies to avoid another incident.

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