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Senate Approves Raise for Court Clerks

State Sen. Carroll Gibson, R-Leitchfield. Photo provided by Legislative Research Commission.
State Sen. Carroll Gibson, R-Leitchfield. Photo provided by Legislative Research Commission.

The Kentucky Senate has approved a mandatory pay raise for circuit court clerks, at a possible cost to taxpayers of $2 million to $3 million a year, after a Senate Republican leader quietly added the proposal to an unrelated House bill. Under the proposed state budget agreed to early Thursday, state workers will not get a pay raise next year, and state retirees will not get a cost-of-living adjustment in their pensions.

Last week a paper copy of the Ten Commandments once again found its way to a place of prominence: the front door of the Shelby County Courthouse.
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