Greg HoganHoping to make ends meet, or at least come closer, Murray County, Ga., Commissioner Greg Hogan has told the county’s 240 full-time workers they won’t be paid for eight of their 11 holidays next year.
“We’re very close with our money … so that’s why these furlough days have come about,” Hogan said at a Wednesday public meeting where he passed a 2012 budget of $15.3 million to match declining revenues.
The holiday-pay cuts will amount to a 3 percent pay decrease for all employees, saving about $200,000, county financial officer Tommy Parker said.
Parker said Hogan himself will forgo 10 percent of his $98,000 salary.
“So he’s taking about a $10,000 cut,” Parker said Friday.