Commission reviews judge request for employee review without notifying her

The Hill County Commission Thursday tabled discussion of a request by the Hill County Justice of the Peace to review and consider changing the job description of her clerks, a discussion Judge Audrey Barger said she was unaware of.

Commissioner Diane McLean said during the commission’s weekly business meeting that Barger had come to the commissioner’s office concerned that she might lose employees due to high disparity in wages.

McLean added that Barger is not requesting her employes go up to deputy wages but to pay them as administrative assistants. Clerks/secretaries wage starts at approxima...