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A special called meeting of the Clark County Fiscal Court occurred last Tuesday morning at the Clark County Courthouse.

In a session that was without public comment – per rule – and lasted just over thirty minutes, the salaries for the custodial staff of the Clark County Courthouse were set, and the second reading and adoption of an ordinance for the 2024 Fiscal Year budget of the Clark County Fiscal Court passed despite not having unanimous approval.

Following the typical procedure, which included the Pledge of Allegiance, considering transfers, and considering the bills list, a second reading and adoption of an ordinance to amend and revise the Clark County Administrative Code was considered for approval.

The revision considered the salaries for both the custodian and custodial supervisor.

While the motion to approve was initially put forth by both Magistrates Dan Konstantopoulos and Mark Miller, further clarification was sought.

“The question I have is, ‘Do we need to review all starting pay county-wide, or just go with these right now and come back to those other ones later’?” said Clark County Judge-Executive Les Yates. “The custodial supervisor made a comment to me that he felt he was worth fourteen [or] fifteen dollars per hour.”

Yates and all magistrates agreed that a salary of $12 per hour for a custodian and $14 per hour for a custodial supervisor were sufficient for the time being.

Thus, the earlier motion for approval by Konstantopoulos and Miller was amended and passed unanimously.

The Fiscal Court also agreed to strike down the position of county maintenance worker, sighting no present need.

In a separate item, the adoption of an ordinance for the 2024 budget of the Clark County Fiscal Court was approved.

Magistrate Robert Blanton, however, served as the ‘No’ vote.

“I’ve had several people ask me about the requests and how we came up with the amount that we allocated to them,” Blanton said. “Since I didn’t see the requests and wasn’t involved in the process, I told them I didn’t know, which I didn’t like to say to them.”

Blanton suggested an alternative approach.

“I would suggest in the future [that] we change the whole process so that we can have a little bit more information about what people actually request and how we come up with the number we decide to allocate to them in the proposed budget,” he said.