OSSIPEE — Holding elected county office will be much more lucrative for the winners of November’s elections, the county delegation decided Wednesday.
The delegation is a group of 15 local state representatives who set county budgets. Every spring of an election year, they set the salaries of elected county officials — the county commissioners, county attorney, register of deeds, sheriff and treasurer.
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