New state law dissolves Compensation Board

     Per Senate File (SF) 2442, which Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law on May 1 to take effect July 1, county boards of supervisors must dissolve their Compensation Boards.

   County Auditor Whitney Hein brought the new law to the Jones County Supervisors' attention during their July 2 board meeting.

   "The board can take no action or action to re-establish the Compensation Board," she advised. "There are not a lot of counties doing anything right away; we don't have an official timeline to do anything."

   Per SF 2442, "a board of supervisors may dissolve a county compensation board upon a majority vote of the members of the board of supervisors."

   If action is taken to dissolve the Comp Board, it's the board of supervisors who then are tasked with carrying out the duties of the Comp Board.

   The Comp Board must then "provide documentation to the board of supervisors that demonstrates how the county compensation board determined the recommended compensation schedule, including by providing the applicable compensation information for comparable officers in other counties of the state, other states, private enterprise, and federal government."