A handful of Carbon County court employees, who didn’t receive raises in 2023 after the county salary board approved them but where then not funded by the county, will see an extra bump in their 2024 salaries.

The county salary board this week, in a 4-1 vote, approved the exhibits outlining the court office salaries for all employees under the court jurisdiction. The board, comprised of the three county commissioners and controller Kayla Herman, meets annually to set the salaries for all county employees for the year,

Commissioner Rocky Ahner cast the sole no vote, because he felt the raises should have been higher for all county employees, as well as a handful of positions bypassing the process of the salary study in the raises.

President Judge Roger Nanovic passed over the first motion that set the salaries without his adjustments, opting to then make a motion for the exhibits that his office had prepared.

He said that the newly prepared exhibits included the new wage table that was adopted in 2022 and included a 3.5% increase.

This affects approximately 22 employees who didn’t receive any raise in 2023, mostly court employees.

He then thanked the board for backing his request this year and approving the motion that was made.

When asked what differences there were between the two motions that Nanovic had to choose from, Ahner said that the first motion was what the commissioners proposed for 2023 and the court chose not to take that.

The motion Nanovic made, however, included that raise that was not given in 2023 and then the additional raise for 2024 that was in line with all other employees, Ahner said.

Commissioner Wayne Nothstein said that the positions all had been approved last year, but not all raises were funded by the county and said that this now brings them back up in line with the salary scale.

Last year, the former salary board split their votes, with then Commissioner Chris Lukasevich and Ahner voting no, while then Controller Mark Sverchek and Nothstein voted yes. Motions narrowly passed as a result of the judge also having a vote, however the board of commissioners in 2-1 votes then chose to not fund the approved rates, negating the actions taken at salary board meeting.