Commissioner raises should be approved by citizens
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Editor,
As a Lake County taxpayer I don’t think it is fair to the citizens of Lake County who are struggling to make ends meet that our county commissioners are allowed to give themselves a pay raise and cut money from the sheriff’s office budget that pays for the schools SROs whose job is to protect the students at the schools’ sporting events. I think that if the commissioners want a raise they should bring it before the citizens to vote on it, I mean it’s the citizens who can say yes or no to the commissioners raise. Now the taxpayers are paying for a $ 7 million, 3 story annex that will house the election office and judges’ offices. I also believe that the county commissioners should try to live like every citizen in Lake County does working from 9-5 Monday through Friday and see how hard it is to make ends meet.
Lynn Delecaris
St. Ignatius
