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The June budget fight centered on millions of dollars for county employee raises. But the same action also increased commissioner and school board pay — and a 2020 Tennessee law raises a question Knox
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A 6% county employee pay increase also raised commissioner and school board salaries. Archived budgets show the mechanism is not new. A 2020 Tennessee law now r…
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