Mahoning County deputies to get pay raise

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County commissioners learned this afternoon that a conciliator has ruled that deputy sheriffs are to receive 2 percent pay hikes. The ruling is binding. A starting deputy's salary would go from $13.10 and hour to $13.36 an hour.

Commissioners also appointed Dennis O’Hara as county emergency management director, effective Thursday.

After having been a planner with the agency, O’Hara became the county emergency preparedness agency’s interim director last January, when Clark Jones retired as EMA director for health reasons. Jones died two months after his retirement.

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