Leete v. County of Warren

The majority acknowledges, but relegates to insignificance, the central and controlling facts that when the defendant-board voted to make the payment in question, the recipient had been a county employee for nine years, was still a county employee, and was scheduled to remain one for a brief period. Given these undisputed facts, the conclusion that the payment was not in consideration of public service is untenable. The defendant-board unquestionably has the authority to set the compensation of its officers. N.C.G.S. § 153A-92 (1991). That is what it has done. The payment constitutes a mere…