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Remember the last time that elected officials tried to ram through a hefty pay![]()
raise through the Cameron County commissioners Court?
Well, that didn;t go over big, and after the court's meeting room filled up with anti-raise and Anti-PNG protestors, the matter of the raises and the tax abatements for Anova LNG were quietly tabled.
That was the last we'd heard of the issues, but they is a trial balloon set for the Salary Grievance Committee of Sept. 9 (Monday) meeting. This time it's Cameron County Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez taking the bull by the horns and making her case before the committee for a raise. She is the lone county official who has filed for a pay increase.
The notice does not say what she wants her salary to increase to, but if we take the proposed (and the quickly tabled) raises, it might mean that Garza-Perez wants what the published notice stated.
Current Allowances
(Phone) (Total) Proposed Increase
Cty. Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez $82,620 $960 $84,580 $105,960 $22,380
The last time that County Judge Eddie Treviño made a comment on why the tabled raises he said that there was no money in the budget for raises for public officials, but didn't explain why they were published in the newspaper anyway.
Could it be that Garza-Perez's grievance is a trial balloon to see whether an appointed committee will give in and grant her the raise, thereby opening up the floodgate for other elected officials to seek their own pay raises. The county clerk's request will be heard on Monday, and the full court will hear recommendations from county administrator Pete Sepulveda based on the committee's decisions.
Will the commissioners bite the bullet and approve what the committee decides? And will the crowd who showed up to protest the raises show up to protest this one as well?
Remember the last time that elected officials tried to ram through a hefty pay
raise through the Cameron County commissioners Court?Well, that didn;t go over big, and after the court's meeting room filled up with anti-raise and Anti-PNG protestors, the matter of the raises and the tax abatements for Anova LNG were quietly tabled.
That was the last we'd heard of the issues, but they is a trial balloon set for the Salary Grievance Committee of Sept. 9 (Monday) meeting. This time it's Cameron County Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez taking the bull by the horns and making her case before the committee for a raise. She is the lone county official who has filed for a pay increase.
The notice does not say what she wants her salary to increase to, but if we take the proposed (and the quickly tabled) raises, it might mean that Garza-Perez wants what the published notice stated.
Current Allowances
(Phone) (Total) Proposed Increase
Cty. Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez $82,620 $960 $84,580 $105,960 $22,380
The last time that County Judge Eddie Treviño made a comment on why the tabled raises he said that there was no money in the budget for raises for public officials, but didn't explain why they were published in the newspaper anyway.
Could it be that Garza-Perez's grievance is a trial balloon to see whether an appointed committee will give in and grant her the raise, thereby opening up the floodgate for other elected officials to seek their own pay raises. The county clerk's request will be heard on Monday, and the full court will hear recommendations from county administrator Pete Sepulveda based on the committee's decisions.
Will the commissioners bite the bullet and approve what the committee decides? And will the crowd who showed up to protest the raises show up to protest this one as well?