News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 Where The Upper Cumberland Talks
White County Commissioners will have to reevaluate a proposal to compensate commissioners who are compliant with required training hours.
Commissioners considered a proposal to pay $600 to commissioners already in compliance with the recommended eight training hours set by CTAS, the statewide county services agency. The proposal also stated the county would give an additional $600 next August, giving commissioners who are not in compliance to catch up. Commissioner T.K. Austin said the state will not allow the current proposal.
“The way the state resolution reads it can only be up to $600 a year,” Austin said. “So the verbiage we had in here showed $1,200 for catching everything up which was not compatible.”
the commission is sending the proposal back to the Steering A Committee for further review as the state said there were some issues with the proposal. The Steering A Committee will review the proposal at the December meeting. Austin said the committee will look to see if they can reword the proposal so the county can compensate commissioners who have already maintained training compliance.
“It just depends on how we can do the wording of it,” Austin said. “It could still happen but odds are good it probably won’t and it would just go to the $600 for the original training.”
