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Dickinson Co. Supervisors Vote To Re-Establish Compensation Board

October 15, 2024 Steve Schwaller

(Spirit Lake)– With one member absent, the Dickinson CountyBoard of Supervisors voted 4-0 this (Tues.) morning to re-establish the county’s Compensation Board, a panel that makes recommendations to the Supervisors for salaries for elected officials. A bill passed in the last session of the Iowa Legislature abolished county Compensation Boards effective this past July 1st, giving counties the option to go without or to re-establish them. Those going without the board will need to follow some additional procedures in coming up with wage recommendations. Supervisor Kim Wermersen spoke in favor of re-establishing the Comp. Board…

“I know we don’t agree with them all the time, but it’s a sounding board and it’s also a representative for our different offices that they can verbally come out and say where we’re at. Of course we have to make the final decision of where that goes, but I think it’s a good sounding board for us to at least begin with.”

County Auditor Lori Pedersen says there will still be some changes even with the re-establishment of the Comp Board…

“It used to be that the supervisors could not raise the recommendation from the Compensation Board. They are able to do that, and they can reduce it, and it does not have to be in even percentages. Historically if they said we’re reducing it by 50 percent, every recommendation was reduced by 50 percent. It does not have to be that way with the new law.”

The county’s new Compensation Board will still consist of seven members with set terms.

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