Local officials would get raise under Senate budget plan

County officials, township trustees, and municipal court clerks in Ohio would see a 5-percent pay raise each year for the next two years under the Ohio Senate’s budget plan.

The proposal, added Wednesday by the Senate Finance Committee to the state’s two-year budget bill, comes on top of an existing budget provision that would give sheriffs, prosecutors and judges 5-percent raises for four consecutive years.

Local governments would shoulder the entire cost of the pay increases, except for $33,840 the state would kick in for court clerk salaries in 2017.

But groups such as the Ohio Council of County Officials and the County Commissioners Association of Ohio have endorsed the move, according to Sen. Bob Peterson, the Washington Court House Republican who offered the pay-raise amendment.

The amended budget bill now heads to the Senate floor for a final vote. The pay-raise proposal must then survive a conference committee of House and Senate members and avoid Gov. John Kasich’s veto pen.

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