Three Wood County residents have been added to the salary grievance committee to hear from Justice of the Peace (JP) Prec. 3 Jerry Parker and JP Prec. 1 Tony Gilbreath. 

The committee was scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon, after Monitor press time.

Prec. 2 JP Janae Holland withdrew her name from the grievance.

“In support of all of the justice of the peace judges, I agreed to file the grievance. However, I decided to withdraw my grievance as I am not seeking a personal salary increase,” Holland stated. “I requested (and will continue) to request that my clerks get re-classified in order for them to get the same level of pay as the county and district office clerks. Unfortunately they did not get approved for the re-classification, however my clerks did receive the 6% across the board increase/raise as all Wood County employees received.”

The committee includes six county officials and three citizens, appointed by commissioners. They are Carol Boman, Nina Hammonds and Ricky Watkins. Other officials on the committee are County Judge Kevin White as chairman, Sheriff Kelly Cole, County Clerk Kelley Price, District Clerk Suzy Wright, Tax Assessor-Collector Carol Taylor and County Treasurer Daphne Carter.