MAYVILLE – A new salary range for the Director of Human Resources/Compliance Officer for the county has been approved, although one official expressed concern regarding the range of the salary.

During the recent legislature meeting, county lawmakers approved a management salary plan range to go from $114,972 to $199,654.

The position is a combined post of two positions.

During a previous committee meeting, County Executive PJ Wendel noted that the compliance officer retired two years ago. Since then the county had been actively seeking a person for the post but was unsuccessful.

“There were some interviews that took place but (we) could not come to a consensus on hiring a candidate,” he said.

During this time period, Wendel said the current human resources director has been receiving a stipend for doing the work of the compliance officer. The change in title allows for the director to continue the work and eliminates that second position.

Wendel added that this change will not impact the budget. He said the budget already reflects the financial reduction of the position, but there was the potential that savings was going to go away once the position was filled.

The salary range of the new combined position is $84,682, something that Legislator Fred Larson, D-Jamestown, noted during the full legislature meeting.

“It did strike me that this is one huge range,” he said.

Larson said he was not going to vote against the change but said he would like to see salary ranges investigated.

“I would hope that one of our committees someday would re-examine whether a range of $20,000 or $30,000, or some cap might be appropriate,” he said.

The new salary range change was unanimously approved.

In other business:

– The legislature approved a lease agreement with Jamestown’s Rental Properties, LLC for the county to lease 95 East Chautauqua St., Mayville for the county Law Department. This is the former Family Health Medical Services, where Dr. Robert Burke had operated out of in the past. The lease is for 10 years and will be for $8,750 a month.

– Daniel Ingrao of Falconer and Christopher Witkowski of Dunkirk and Legislator Lisa Vanstrom, R-West Ellicott were appointed to the Traffic Safety Board.

– Sagan Sheffield-Smith of Bemus Point was reappointed to the county Industrial Development Agency Board of Directors.