CC Sheriff’s Pay Increase

With funding coming from local and federal sources, employees of the Carter Country Sheriff’s Office may be close to getting a long-awaited pay increase.Tuesday night, the Carter County Commission Budget Committee voted to increase pay by $5 an hour for all patrol and corrections employees in the sheriff’s office.That’s a total of 133 employees.The Budget Committee has asked for a called meeting of the full county commission next week to give final approval to the pay increase plan.