Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

County board sets salaries for elected officials

By RICHARD JENKINS

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HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors set the salaries for the county’s three elected officials for the next four years Tuesday.

The resolution approved Tuesday sets the salaries for the clerk, treasurer and register of deeds offices through the year 2024.

Clerk Mike Saari said the figures included an increase to offset the raises other county employees got in 2017 and 2018, so the elected officials got the same increase as everyone else.

“I took what every other employee received (in raises) … they got 40 cents one year, we got...