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I read in the April 26 edition of the paper how solid waste salaries are going up by $37,000 due to the state-mandated minimum wage increase. Since the introduction of the permit system about 4 years ago, solid waste department salaries as a budget item have gone up hundreds of thousands of dollars. As a percentage rate of increase, they have exceeded even what Washington DC is spending, and that's an accomplishment (sarcasm). This is due mainly to staffing remote sites, something we avoided doi