WABASHA, Minn. – The Wabasha County prosecutor, Matt Stinson, said he was blind-sided when the County Board voted to cut his salary by $20,000. “I do wish the individual commissioners who had voted in favor of this resolution had come to me to discuss things beforehand,” The vote was 3-2. In an interview with a Minnesota Public Radio news reporter, Stinson acknowledged that the Board had sent him a list of questions about his job performanc, and that he requested a meeting, and that he never heard back. Stinson said he is weighing options to respond to he pay cut.. While county boards control the local prosecutors’ office budgets, the law allows salary changes only after the county attorney’s four-year term is over, he said.
