{"id":129301,"date":"2026-07-09T05:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/07\/09\/commissioners-approve-pay-increases\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:15:09","modified_gmt":"2028-12-25T05:15:09","slug":"commissioners-approve-pay-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/07\/09\/commissioners-approve-pay-increases\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners  Approve Pay  Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bill Vander Weele<br \/>\n\t The Roosevelt County commissioners  approved the recommendation  from the compensation board regarding raises for elected officials during their weekly meeting on Tuesday, June 30.<br \/>\n\t  The recommendation called for an annual increase of $3,500 a year for elected officials.<br \/>\n\t  In addition, commissioners approved  a cost of living increase of $1 an hour for non-elected and nonunion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129623,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129301\/revisions\/129623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129301"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=129301"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=129301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}