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Ramsey County commissioners give themselves 2% pay raise to $84K

By Joe Kimball | 06/23/10

The Ramsey County Board of Commissioners gave themselves a 2 percent pay hike on Tuesday.

So their pay will go up next year to $84,048. The board chair will get $86,675.

Commissioners didn't discuss the pay raise at Tuesday's meeting; they just voted 6-1 to do it. Commissioner Janice Rettman — who's been voting against pay hikes since her days as a St. Paul City Council member in the 1980s — was the lone no vote. 

Last year, the board voted to decline a pay raise because of the economy. But in 2008 they got a whopping 25 percent raise.

The Star Tribune notes that the pay raise may become a campaign issue for the four commissioners seeking re-election this year: Toni Carter, Jim McDonough, Rafael Ortega and Rettman. McDonough and Rettman, however, are running unopposed.

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Submitted by James Hamilton on June 24, 2010 - 9:37pm.

A recent article in a source I can't recall ran down the salaries paid to county commissioners throughout the metro. Ramsey County,as I recall, came in second to Hennepin County. Yet some of those supporting the pay raise say it was necessary to avoid having to play catch up in the future. Catch up to whom?