Elected officers seek pay hike

Tuesday, March 23, 1999 | 12:42 p.m.

Carson City Clerk-Recorder Alan Glover and Douglas County Clerk-Treasurer Barbara Reed, representing the County Fiscal Officers Association, asked the Senate Government Affairs Committee to support SB414, which would grant the annual raises.

Glover said the elected officials' salaries are lower than those of other workers, and they're tired of continually lobbying the Legislature.

"This bill is an attempt to try and find some other mechanism that we can get around having to come back to you all the time and going through the same problem," said Glover.

But committee member Jon Porter, R-Las Vegas, said he doesn't think guaranteed pay hikes are fair and equitable when state employees have been told they'll get nothing because of a bleak budget year.

"I'm not sure it would be fair to give any pay raises with the state that the state is in currently," said Porter. "I guess if there are extra monies around, we should be looking at those extra funds to take care some of our state issues."

The bill, submitted by Sen. Lawrence Jacobsen, R-Minden, originally only named Douglas County officials as beneficiaries of a pay raise. It was modified to include county commissioners, district attorneys, sheriffs, county clerks, assessors, recorders, treasurers and public administrators around the state.