Sec. 22-52. - County judge executive and fiscal court commissioners.

(1)   The county judge executive and fiscal court commissioners shall be elected.

(2)   In order to equate the compensation of the county judge/executive with the purchasing power of the dollar, the commissioner of finance shall compute by the second Friday in February of every year, beginning in 2003, the annual increase or decrease in the consumer price index of the preceding year by using 2002 as the base year in which the base salary of the county judge/executive was set at seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) per annum. The commissioner of finance shall notify the director of the division of accounting of the annual rate of compensation to which the county judge/executive is entitled pursuant to the increase or decrease in the consumer price index. Upon notification from the commissioner of finance, the county judge/executive shall be salaried at the rate stipulated by the commissioner of finance, but the salary shall in no case be set below the base salary.

The county judge/executive shall be eligible for the benefits provided in sections 21-32 and 21-42, under the same terms and conditions as specified in those sections, and for any other benefits approved by the council for his position.

(3)   The salaries of the fiscal court commissioners shall be as established by the urban county council in the authorized strength. They shall not receive any of the benefits provided for in chapter 21.

(Ord. No. 230-83, § 1, 11-22-83; Ord. No. 156-2002, § 2, 6-27-02; Ord. No. 060-2022 , § 34, 7-5-22)

Charter references(s)—Unclassified civil service, § 9.06.

State law references(s)—Qualifications, vacancy, salary, minimum annual compensation, exception, KRS 67.705.