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Rock Island County elected officials asking for 7% pay increase | Politics and elections

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Six Rock Island County elected officials are asking for a 7% pay increase that would push their salaries to more than $100,000 per year. 

The elected positions that would receive raises include the county treasurer, clerk, coroner, auditor, circuit clerk and recorder.

Rock Island County Treasurer Louisa Ewert and Coroner Brian Gustafson made a pitch for the pay raises to county board members during their committee of the whole meeting Wednesday night. County board members will vote whether to approve or reject the proposed wage increases during the May 17 regular meeting. 

Ewert said her salary has not changed in 13 years. As a result, she said, “Sometimes the (county) employee is actually outpacing the elected official’s salary by one-third.”

“Their salaries include step increases,” Ewert said. “I think our resolution is very conservative.”

Ewert currently has a base salary of $93,636 and Gustafson’s base salary is $91,800.

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“It took 10 years to get to where you’re at right now, so why are we going to fix (your salary) in one year?” County Board Vice Chairman Brian Vyncke said. “Something we have to be cognizant of is that nobody else in the county got a 7% increase this year. The other issue is that there is a term called pension spiking. Honestly, a 7% bump for anyone that is going to retire in the next couple of years is what I would consider a pension spike.”

Vyncke was referring to the process whereby public sector employees artificially inflate their compensation immediately preceding retirement in order to receive larger pensions than they otherwise would be entitled to receive.

Ewert said she would not personally benefit from an approved raise since she announced in July that she would not run for reelection and planned to retire before the pay raise would take effect.  

“But there are other people,” Vyncke said. 

Salaries for elected officials must be set by the county 180 days prior to the election for those offices. The offices of treasurer and county clerk will be up for election this year in the Nov. 8 general election. 

Salaries for the offices of coroner, circuit clerk, auditor and recorder do not have to be set for another two years, but those officials are asking for their pay to be increased and set in advance of this year’s election. If approved, the four positions up for election in the 2024 general election would not receive their pay raises until that time. 

“If it is said that the county board was approached with a request for a 7% increase, and they granted it, there won’t be anyone reading past that first paragraph to see that it would freeze in year two, be attenuated in year three and approached again in year four,” county board member Kai Swanson siad. “I want to get you where you want to be with these proposals by year four, but I think it’s more prudent to do so in a more amenable fashion.”

Sheriff and state’s attorney salaries are set by the state and partially reimbursed back to the county, Vyncke said. 

Board member Robert Westpfahl asked why the salaries of union members are discussed in closed session but the elected officials salaries were being discussed in open session for the public to hear. 

County Board Chairman Richard Brunk said according to Illinois’ Open Meetings Act, compensation for elected officials is not allowed to be discussed in closed session. 

Vyncke stressed that compensation for county board members would not be changing, making it 10 years since raises were last approved for those positions in 2012.

“This board is not getting any increase — for the record — even though all the other county employees and elected officials may,” he said. “Kudos to the county board for keeping us where we are at.”

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