SALARY INCREASEBelow are the minimum state-mandated salaries for specific elected offices in Sequatchie County at the former classification for a population of 12,000 or less and for the new population classification of 12,000 to 22,999.County Office: Old salary-New salaryExecutive: $60,350-$66,702Road supervisor: $57,477-$63,527Sheriff: $57,477-$63,527Trustee, clerks of court, county clerk and register of deeds, property assessor: $52,251-$57,751Total annual salaries combined: $488,810-$540,262Total annual combined increase: $51,542**Does not include the $4,950 minimum salary increase for the nonelected office of administrator of elections from $47,026 to $51,976 a year. The figures also do not reflect benefits.Source: University of Tennessee County Technical Assistance Service
DUNLAP, Tenn.-The latest U.S. census figures seem to confirm what Sequatchie County officials have been saying for the past decade: The 11,370 residents enumerated in 2000 likely was a miscount, an error that caused growth rates ever since to be wrong and cost Sequatchie countless amounts of money in grants, taxes and other funding.
Sequatchie’s 2010 census count stands at 14,112, representing a 24 percent increase in the last decade and the greatest growth of any county in Southeast Tennessee.
Fredonia Mountain resident Kurt Wissehr and his wife, Helen, were among those who moved to Sequatchie County in the last 10 years.
“If we could do it all over again, we would do exactly the same thing,” Wissehr said.