JACKSON COUNTY, MI — Jackson County commissioners created four new positions to balance workload among county staff.

They include three full-time jobs, an executive administrative assistant, a lead medical examiner investigator and an assistant director of 911 dispatch and one part-time position: a lead pathology assistant for the medical examiner’s office.

Total costs of salaries and benefits could cost the county about $336,000.

The Jackson County Board of Commissioners approved the positions Tuesday, Sept. 23, over some objection.

Republican Commissioners Tony Bair, District 1; Corey Kennedy, District 3; and Philip Duckham, District 4, voted against all the new positions. District 2 Commissioner Margie Walz voted against all but the assistant 911 dispatch director.

Bair questioned

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