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Splitting largely along gender lines, eight members of the Cameron County Salary Grievance Committee voted to deny Cameron County County Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez a $8,000 raise.
The committee has nine members drawn from the grand jury pool, but only eight attended, with five female members voting against it and two of the three men against. Garza-Perez was the lone county official to file a salary grievance. Her current salary including a $960 phone allowance is $84,580.
The results now go to the Cameron County Commissioners Court tomorrow where Cameron County Administrator Pete Sepulveda will present the committee's recommendation to the members.
Garza-Perez denied she was asking for the $22,000 proposed raise that was published in the newspaper by the county. This is what appeared then:
Current Allowances
(Phone) (Total) Proposed Increase
Cty. Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez $82,620 $960 $84,580 $105,960 $22,380
Instead, she said that she had filed her appeal with the grievance committee for only a $7,000 raise and that she had never been told that the county would publish the notice that indicated she wanted a $22,000 raise. She told another blogger tat she asked the committee for $15,000, but would settle for $8,000.
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.
Splitting largely along gender lines, eight members of the Cameron County Salary Grievance Committee voted to deny Cameron County County Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez a $8,000 raise.The committee has nine members drawn from the grand jury pool, but only eight attended, with five female members voting against it and two of the three men against. Garza-Perez was the lone county official to file a salary grievance. Her current salary including a $960 phone allowance is $84,580.
The results now go to the Cameron County Commissioners Court tomorrow where Cameron County Administrator Pete Sepulveda will present the committee's recommendation to the members.
Garza-Perez denied she was asking for the $22,000 proposed raise that was published in the newspaper by the county. This is what appeared then:
Current Allowances
(Phone) (Total) Proposed Increase
Cty. Clerk Sylvia Garza-Perez $82,620 $960 $84,580 $105,960 $22,380
Instead, she said that she had filed her appeal with the grievance committee for only a $7,000 raise and that she had never been told that the county would publish the notice that indicated she wanted a $22,000 raise. She told another blogger tat she asked the committee for $15,000, but would settle for $8,000.
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.