HAMILTON COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) — Hamilton County Commissioners will be getting a smaller than planned bump in discretionary pay.

In the initial proposed budget, they were going to get about a five thousand dollar bump to 20 thousand dollars for discretionary travel. However, Chairman Jeff Eversole said in light of this being a tight budget year, this raise needed to be cut. That decision faced push back from several commissioners saying it would limit their activities as commissioners.

“It does help youth organizations, not just sports. It helps our schools. It helps our teachers to help buy their supplies, our fire departments, wherever we want to put it.” – Gene-O Shipley, Hamilton County Commissioner

Chairman Eversole and commissioners say they’ve reached a compromise where th

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