Price tag could be $50,000 for new commissioners in Marion county

There will be expenses for training and getting new letterheads, but the biggest factor is the salaries for the two new officials.

Commissioners currently make $18,000 annually, plus benefits. If pay and benefits packages remain the same for new members, it adds $50,000 to the budget county clerk Tina Spencer said.

“One commissioner is saying, ‘We’ll just cut our salary by that much,’” she said. “That would take a lot. We haven’t put the numbers to it, but I don’t know that it’s going to happen.”

(Read more: HILLSBORO Star-Journal)