{"id":311455,"date":"2014-08-20T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=311455"},"modified":"2014-08-21T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:14:00","slug":"nacogdoches-county-judge-gives-self-24k-pay-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=311455","title":{"rendered":"Nacogdoches County Judge Gives Self $24K Pay Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/Mike-Perry-Nacogdoches-County-Judge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/Mike-Perry-Nacogdoches-County-Judge-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Perry-Nacogdoches County Judge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-311495\" \/><\/a>NACOGDOCHES (AP) \u2013 An East Texas county judge has given himself a $24,000 annual pay cut as residents face possible higher property taxes. The Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel reports Nacogdoches County Judge Mike Perry has submitted an affidavit to be paid less. Perry, as of Oct. 1, will receive the same annual salary as county commissioners of nearly $52,000. Commissioners on Tuesday held a budget workshop. A public hearing on proposed higher tax rates will be held Friday. Perry, who took office earlier this year, says he didn\u2019t run for the job for what it paid anyway \u2013 total compensation topping $76,000. Perry says he promised to balance the county budget and he feels if other people sacrifice that he should, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NACOGDOCHES (AP) \u2013 An East Texas county judge has given himself a $24,000 annual pay cut as residents face possible higher property taxes. The Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel reports Nacogdoches County Judge Mike Perry has submitted an affidavit to be paid less. Perry, as of Oct. 1, will receive the same annual salary as county commissioners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=311455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nacogdoches County Judge Gives Self $24K Pay Cut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 00:22:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311497,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311455\/revisions\/311497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}