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Comm. Minutes--August 3, 1992 896 16. 17. MOTION, passed Mr. Shannon moved and Mrs. Toussaint seconded to refer this request to the County Auditor for inclusion in the County budget process in the amount of $20,000 over the next two-year period, beginning in 1993. On roll call vote, the motion carried with four members voting "Aye" and Mr. Eckert opposing because he thinks there is a need for a decision before the budget process. Mr. Wieland told SCS representatives that a decision will be made by October. SOFTWARE INTERFACE, Court/State's Attorney Mr. Shannon said a large amount of staff time has been committed to the process of evaluating software for the court and state's attorney interfacing software. He provided copies of a follow-up schedule, which will conclude with a contract on October 5th, 1992. SALARY ADMINISTRATION, Recommendations County Judge Frank Racek was present on behalf of Cass County Government elected department heads concerning 1993 budget amount for their salaries. In a letter to the Commission, Judge Racek said elected officials were not included in the Ernst and Young study which was recently completed, but based on the average raise for all County employees of 4.6% which was effective July 1, 1992, elected department heads are requesting a budget amount of 4.6% plus the 3% minimum that is being budgeted for all employees for 1993. MOTION, passed Mr. Shannon moved and Mrs. Toussaint seconded to adopt partial salary administration recommendations as follows: 1) for preliminary budgeting, a salary increase of seven and six/tenths percent (7.6%) for elected officials (excluding County Commissioners) may be included in initial budgets; 2) current salary ranges will be maintained for 1993 budget; 3) the auditor is to prepare a full financial impact statement of proposed salary and fringe costs; 4) the auditor is to prepare statistics with suitable graphs to illustrate the status and growth of salaries and fringe for Cass County employees in a comparative format for the years 1985 through the proposed increases of 1993. Additionally, statistics are to be prepared which calculate and graph the total salary and fringe compensation adjusted to reflect actual hours worked in 1992 (that is, 2,080 hours per 40-hour week/year backing out holidays, vacations and other activities which reduce real time on the job divided by cash paid by Cass County taxpayers for all forms of compensation); and 5) since a primary objective of the Cass County Commission for securing the services of the accounting firm of Ernst & Young was to establish marketplace relevance for jobs at Cass County, and, secondly, since the target for midpoint of salary