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County To Approve Pay Raises

By Alison St John / Reporter

Published March 1, 2010 at 3:00 AM PST

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

San Diego County Supervisors will vote tomorrow on a 2 percent pay raise for 1,800 County managers and the staff of elected officials.

San Diego County Supervisors will vote tomorrow on a 2 percent pay raise for 1,800 county managers and the staff of elected officials.

Martin Rigby, a human resources manager, says this covers employees not represented by labor negotiations.

"It’s based on what has already been negotiated in the agreements in 2008, 2009 by the labor relations folks at the county," Rigby said. "This is to keep up with the increase that was given at that time."

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The increase will cost the county $3 million, but Rigby says that money has already been included in the budget.

San Diego County’s 16,000 salaried employees did not get a pay raise last year, but the 2 percent increase negotiated by their unions will take effect in June of this year.

The County has not imposed any pay cuts on their employees to deal with the economic downturn.

San Diego City workers, from the Mayor on down, took an across the board 6 percent pay cut last year to balance their budget.

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Alison St John currently serves as a general assignment reporter and occasionally co-hosts KPBS Midday Edition. She fell in love with KPBS Radio when she arrived in San Diego in 1985 and first heard NPR. She has been a voice on KPBS Radio since 1989, and has served as a news reporter for radio, TV and the web, as well as anchoring, hosting, producing and editing. Alison has reported on stories about North County and was based in the KPBS' North County Bureau. Alison covered the metro beat during the critical period of the San Diego City pension crisis, and the education beat while Alan Bersin was the controversial Superintendent of San Diego City School District. She covered health when the industry was converting to managed care and told welfare reform stories in the late 1990s when Clinton was “ending welfare as we know it.” She has covered land use issues extensively, looking at the challenges of meeting a growing population while preserving community character, and developing a better transportation system to meet environmental concerns. She has done many stories on the military in San Diego, and the series she edited on the challenges veterans face returning from active duty to civilian life won “Best of Show” from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. She occasionally hosts the KPBS Roundtable and KPBS Midday Edition. Alison has won awards from the San Diego Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press TV and Radio Association, and the California Golden Mike Awards. Alison was born in Tanzania, brought up in Scotland, and earned her degree in psychology and sociology from Durham University in England. Her postgraduate diploma is in student counseling. She worked in England, Nigeria, Switzerland, Belgium, India, and Japan before moving to the United States in 1981. She now lives in Oceanside and enjoys how her community is growing and changing.