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Yankton County Employees to Get Two Percent Raise in 2019

Yankton County Employees to Get Two Percent Raise in 2019

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Yankton County Register of Deeds Brian Hunhoff asked the County Commission this week to consider giving county employees a three percent raise next year. They are set to get a two percent increase.
Commission Chairman Todd Woods says they have a very tight budget..

Woods says they are seeing the tax base start to grow…

Woods says they have tried to keep wages and benefits competitive…

Hunhoff told commissioners that it would add about forty-two thousand dollars to the budget to give employees an additional one percent raise.

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