Washington County officials say requests for salary increases will require county commissioners to make some unpopular decisions in setting a new budget this year. During a recent workshop the proposed budgets from a number of county offices, commissioners were told that the majority of the projected $6.4 million in new spending requests will go to cover pay and benefits. Mitch Meredith, the county’s director of finance and administration, said at least $3.7 million of that amount has been requested to address employee wage adjustments.