Vigo County sends a deputy prosecutor pay raise — and its public-defender price tag — to the full council

What happened

The budget committee discussed a request to raise deputy prosecutors' pay, and a committee member said doing so would also trigger a matching pay increase for public defenders — required, they believed, by a state law linking the two offices' pay. The deputy-prosecutor raise alone was estimated to add about $100,000; later in the same meeting, committee members put the proposed new deputy prosecutor salary at roughly $90,000. The auditor's office told the committee it had received a letter from the prosecutor's office saying the office is losing ground on salaries and can't keep the positions filled.

The outcome

Referred to the full county council with no committee vote taken.

Sources

• Raising deputy prosecutor pay would trigger a matching public-defender increase, 18:38
• Estimated added cost: about $100,000, 18:53
• Reason given: the prosecutor's office can't keep positions filled, 19:11
• Auditor's office relays a letter about losing ground on salaries, 27:55
• Committee refers the decision to the full council, 31:41
• Proposed deputy prosecutor salary put at about $90,000, 2:26:47

Also known as: deputy prosecutor raise · public defender pay increase · prosecutor's office salaries