IN DEPTH REPORTING: Who Decides When Knox County Commissioners Get a Raise?

A 6% county employee pay increase also raised commissioner and school board salaries. Archived budgets show the mechanism is not new. A 2020 Tennessee law now raises a question Knox County has not yet

A 6% county employee pay increase also raised commissioner and school board salaries. Archived budgets show the mechanism is not new. A 2020 Tennessee law now raises a question Knox County has not yet answered.

By Brandon Burley | The Redemption Project Newsroom

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knox County’s June budget fight began with a familiar argument over governm…