Peterson responds to health department pay issue

Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson responded Thursday during and after this week’s meeting of the Hill County Commission to the ongoing issue of complaints that the pay scale is low at the Hill County Health Department.

During the public comments segment of the meeting, Hill County resident Rickie Magnussen brought up the issue, having read and heard about it before, and said he was concerned that the commission wasn’t addressing the issue with the urgency required.

For the last few years, members of the Hill County Health Department have requested that their wages be raised to a...