County Board Gives Initial Ok To $117,000 Salary For New Executive

The salary for the partisan position, to be elected by voters in November 2018, was approved 12-8 near the end of a committee-of-the-whole meeting that lasted nearly four hours. URBANA — Champaign County's first partisan county executive, to be elected by the voters in November 2018, would be paid $117,269 in their first year under a plan given preliminary approval Tuesday night by the county board. The salary proposal was approved, 12-8, near the end of a committee-of-the-whole meeting that lasted nearly four hours. read more