Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RICHARD JENKINS
HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors recognized the extra hours the county’s Department of Human Services staff has been putting in the past year, voting 9-3 Tuesday to compensate three employees for additional time.
The board approved paying Human Services Director Cally Kilger, Financial Manager Diane Schmidtke and Program Manager Becky Rein a total of $75,649 for the roughly 1,863 hours beyond normal work hours the three worked in 2017.
Board members Ken Saari, Scott Erickson and Jay Aijala voted against the measure. Jim Kichak...