The Marshall County Commissioners will work with Waggoner, Irwin and Scheele to work out wording for a highway department superintendent position.
Commissioner Kurt Garner asked fellow commissioners Monday morning what the next step would be in the process of administration at the highway department after the county council members withdrew funding for a county engineer position prior to the action of adopting the budget last week. He said it was his guess that the council members may be hinting at the commissioners to create a highway superintendent’s position.
Waggoner, Irwin and Scheele officials previously presented a job description for an interim highway superintendent position and the commissioners talked about incorporating that wording into a highway superintendent’s position.
Garner said it may be advantageous for the commissioners to look into it more closely.
“Their raise in the salary reflects a superintendent’s position,” said Garner. “They’ve also made it clear by taking the engineer out of the budget. That supervisor, the position that’s in the budget, is the superintendent. I think you have to clean it up. You have to have the language and the job description that goes with the position that the council has created.”
The county council approved Highway Supervisor Jason Peters’ salary increase to just over $57,000 in September of this year and made it retroactive to Jan. 1.
The commissioners will discuss the topic further at their next meeting on Nov. 5.
