Patricia Doxsey is reporting for the Daily Freeman the Ulster County Periodic Compensation Review Committee voted June 12, to recommend the county sheriff receive an 8.2 percent pay raise, to $110,000 per year, in 2020. At the same time, the committee said no to recommending raises for the county executive and comptroller and the 23 members of the Legislature. The committee voted previously to recommend a pay raise for the county clerk. Sheriff Juan Figueroa was elected to a four-year term in November 2018 and took office in January. He is a retired state trooper who also collects a pension from that job. "I think he made a very good argument for why he is undercompensated," said Michael Shaughnessy, chairman of the compensation review committee. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.