County police, firefighters, senior service workers and a handful of others might receive $1,500 in hazard pay for work performed in the early months of the pandemic, according to county documents.
An agenda for Tuesday’s meeting of the county’s governing board includes two requests from board Chairman Mike Boyce for hazard pay. If approved, more than $2.6 million would go toward the employees in question.
Most county employees were required to work from home shortly before Boyce declared a state of emergency related to the coronavirus in mid-March. But some considered essential by their department heads had to report to work as they would otherwise, potentially exposing themselves to the coronavirus.
The request commissioners will consider Tuesday has upped the pay to $750 per month for work performed by certain employees in April and May, when the county was in “limited operational services” mode.