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Article: Somerset officials squabble over budget Committee reduces salary and benefit packages recommended by commissioners
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- December 31, 2004
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SKOWHEGAN - Budget committee members butted heads Thursday night
with county employees and county commissioners as they slashed
benefits and salaries throughout Somerset County government.
The committee cut commissioner-recommended raises from 4 percent
to 2.7 percent, slashed the county treasurer's pay by $6,000 and
dropped health and dental benefits for all part-time employees.
But when one committee member attempted to direct the
commissioners to shift their insurance coverage to a specific
company, Chairman D. Dwight Dogherty of Pittsfield put on the brakes.
Dogherty said the committee could not wander from budget matters
into policy issues.
Still, there were complaints that the ...