The Kane County Board approved the increases recently in a split vote.
In a split vote on May 29, the Kane County Board approved an increase in pay for four elected positions to begin after the fall election. Many of the elected county offices in Kane County will see over 20% pay raises starting after the election in November.
Salaries are tied to elected offices, not to elected individuals. The current salaries for those positions have remained unchanged since 2013. Throughout multiple meetings on the salary increases, board members were divided about which positions needed a higher salary and how much those salaries should be increased, if at all. Divisions continued at the May 29 special meeting, where 12 Kane County Board members voted in favor of the increases while 11 voted against them.
Increases were initially proposed by a six-person advisory committee that met on May 10. Under that proposal, the Kane County Board chair position would have made $130,000 per year with 3% yearly increases for the following three years. Although the last few people to hold the position have taken on additional responsibilities that are not against the code but also not specifically laid out in it, these board members said, that does not make the chair worthy of such a significant salary. Sanchez even proposed lowering the position’s salary to $70,000 yearly, but the motion failed.
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