Pay issues are resulting in decades of experience leaving the Warren County Adult Probation Department.
The Warren County Commissioners want to address the problem, but a collective bargaining agreement that went to arbitration complicates the situation. Chief Adult Probation Officer Mike Walters told the Warren County Commissioners that his frustrations with the wage issue are “reaching a new level.”
He said that the department has lost 43 years of experience in the last year and a half and is set to lose another 19 soon “all due to pay.”
“We’re not going to be able to keep up the current level of supervision with a revolving door of new hires,” he said.
As a result, a proposed memorandum of understanding was tabled Wednesday.