Wayne Board of Supervisors
gives employees pay increases
By John Zornow - jzornow@cgazette.com

LYONS — Some county employees will be seeing a little extra in their paychecks this year.

With no comment from the public offered a  hearing held Tuesday, Dec. 16, the Wayne County Board of Supervisors approved the 2009 schedule of salaries for certain county officers.

The only “no” vote came from Palmyra Supervisor Dave Lyon. Sodus Supervisor Steve LeRoy was absent.

The salaries of officers ranging from the fire coordinator to the county administrator will be raised 3 percent. The exception is District Attorney Richard Healy, whose annual pay will go to $128,186, up 7 percent. Rose Supervisor Lucinda Collier of Rose explained that the jump in Healy’s salary is the result of the state’s instructions to bring the pay of district attorneys up to the level of county judges.

“Maybe so,” said Lyon, but he added that the state judicial system had also recently given judges a raise based on additional titles and responsibilities. Lyon expressed he did not interpret the rules to mean the district attorney should share in that increase as well, and voted no.

The new salaries took effect on Jan. 1, 2009. Also at the meeting the board:

• ANNOUNCED — the retirement of longtime Highway Chief Jim Brady effective Dec. 29. Lyons Supervisor Jim Fabino spoke of Brady’s 16 years on the job and presented him with a certificate of recognition.

Assistant Highway Superintendent Kevin Rooney, of Macedon, was named to replace Brady. Keeping with Wayne County Civil Service law, Rooney will serve a 12 week probationary term, which will then be made permanent four years at an annual salary of $74,263.

• HONORED — Jim Decola, a resident of Galen, and employee of the Wayne County Nursing Home, for 37 years of service to Wayne County.

• HEARD — as Wayne County Historian Peter Evans presented the 2008 Mildred Taylor-Daniel Kane History Award to Charles Lenhart of Hilton, and James Kennard of Fairport. Evans described the efforts of Lenhart to educate the public on Wayne County’s anti-slavery and underground railroad history, and Kennard’s role in diving on and recording the stories of several high profile shipwrecks off the shores of Wayne County.

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