Nine Kosciusko County departments requested new employees for 2003. But the county council granted only a few Thursday at their third and final budget meeting of the week. County council president Jim Tranter presented the wage committee's recommendations on those requests to the rest of the county council.The wage committee members are county commissioner Brad Jackson and councilmen Tranter and Brad Tandy.County administrator Ron Robinson serves on the committee as an adviser. When Superior Court II Judge James Jarrette's request for the creation of a security officer position, to be handled and controlled by the judges of Superior Courts II and III, looked like the council was going to deny the position, Jarrette did not hesitate to speak up.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016