Mahoning commissioners to meet Tuesday, Thursday to discuss pay raises

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County commissioners will explore remedies available to them to counter the pay raises recently granted to employees of the prosecutor’s and engineer’s offices.

The commissioners plan to discuss the pay raises in staff meetings with Engineer Richard Marsico at 10 a.m. Tuesday, and tentatively with Prosecutor Paul J. Gains at 1 p.m. Thursday.

“The commissioners don’t set individual pay scales for employees in other departments of other elected officials, but we do appropriate the money. ...That’s where the commissioners have some control over this process,” said John A. McNally IV, chairman of the county commissioners.

“We could take back money that’s been appropriated,” McNally said. “I was stunned at the size of the raises,” in the prosecutor’s office.

The raises there ranged from less than 3 percent to 22 percent, with the 22 percent raise occurring with a promotion.

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