Archive - 2018

The McLeod County Board of Commissioners approved grade positions for workers as well as a leave of absence for the current property taxation and drainage administrator.
Gradation is a government-style pay schedule used to identify pay ranges. McLeod County Deputy Administrator Sheila Murphy said various factors are considered, like responsibility, education, experience, knowledge and skills. The county’s scale starts at 100 and can go as high as 260, measured in increments of 10.

Everybody likes to kvetch about property taxes. It’s a popular pastime in most every corner of the area, though you’d never know it by the attendance at local city council, county board and school district meetings.
In short, it’s oftentimes easier for people to complain amongst friends over coffee than make their voices heard. Elected officials, especially at the local level, are sensitive to the concerns of their neighbors. They are, after all, easily accessible.

Police patrol officers and the City of Glencoe recently reached a labor contract for the coming year.
The city council unanimously approved the negotiated agreement Dec. 17, the council’s final meeting of 2018. The council waited until the agreement had been OK’d by the union members represented by Minnesota Public Employees Assoc. The agreement runs from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2019 unless the city or union give each other 60 days’ notice to terminate or amend the contract.