Supervisors tomorrow are expected to decide on a contract for County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry that gives him a hefty raise.
The board also is scheduled to take a critical vote on restyling its health-care services and will debate 53 projects the administrator proposes be part of a $350 million road bond package.
In the contract Huckelberry submitted to the board late Thursday, he gives himself a $21,000 raise, to $148,000 a year, plus $7,500 in deferred compensation - such as retirement benefits.
And if the board fires him before the contract expires on Jan. 2, 2001, they'll have to pay Huckelberry an extra $75,000.
Huckelberry is paid $127,638 a year.
He has been working without a contract since January when he weathered a push by Democrats Sharon Bronson and Dan Eckstrom to dump him.
Earlier this month during a vote on the budget, the board agreed - at Eckstrom's suggestion - that Huckelberry prepare a contract.
With the raise and deferred compensation, Huckelberry would be paid $155,500 a year and still would be eligible for any across-the-board pay raises that county workers get during the term of the contract.
Also, Huckelberry would continue to get a car plus car insurance. And he'd get extra paid time off - in addition to his annual sick leave, vacation and holidays - to serve on public, professional or advisory boards.
The county also would pick up the tab for any of the administrator's county-related legal troubles.
Huckelberry can be fired without cause any time a majority on the board - three votes - chooses to do so.
Meanwhile, the board will decide two unrelated issues at the same meeting:
*An integration plan for the county's health-care programs.
The board voted July 1 to let the county's Integrated Health Care System Coordinating Council work on a plan to distance the board from the day-to-day operation of county-provided health services such as indigent and home care, services at Kino Community Hospital and an assortment of medical programs and clinics.
A specific plan will be offered to the board tomorrow.
*Discussion of 53 separate road projects and a $44 million reserve fund for bridge repairs, safety improvements and other improvements such as bike lanes and bus pullouts that Huckelberry wants in the transportation bond package.
Voters will be asked to approve the $350 million bond proposal on Nov. 4.
The board has until 10 days before the polls open to issue a final package detailing projects, including their cost and a schedule for their completion.
