The Pennington County commission has recently voted for themselves to receive a 20% pay raise, despite the fact that they've recently asked voters to accept a tax increase due to a lack of funds for county roads and bridges. This has brought their pay to $18,000 per year for 4 hours of work PER MONTH. In addition to this, our commissioners are not currently required to attend the meetings and still receive their full pay. Commissioner Ron Buskerud lives in Arizona half of the year, only sporadically participating in the county commission meetings and still continues to draw a full salary on the back of the taxpayers.
We want to send a strong message to the Pennington County Commissioners that we do not believe that they should've have made a motion and voted in favor of their own raise without the consent of the voters at a time that they are asking for more. In addition we would like the commissioners to be REQUIRED to attend the meetings they have been elected to serve in, or they will NOT receive compensation for the missed meetings.
