A Carbon County row officer said she plans to weigh her legal options after her request for raises for her employees was ignored.

On Thursday, Clerk of Courts Tyra Boni said during the salary board meeting that a lawsuit was possible because she felt the lack of a second on her motion was a direct discrimination against her personally. She made the motion to give her staff 6% raises, effective Sept. 1, but the motion died for lack of a second. It was the only motion to not be seconded during the heated meeting.

“I will discuss the next step with my solicitor,” Boni said after the meeting and didn’t rule out filing a lawsuit in the matter.

“It was clearly discrimination and a deliberate move and personal attack towards me and my employees are the ones who suffer,” she added, pointed out that the same commissioner, who she didn’t name, was the person who started the action to have the row offices make these motions.

Boni said the matter will be addressed at the annual salary board meeting in January.

Prior to the motion being made, Boni told the salary board that the motion on the table would not impact her salary budget that was already approved at the end of last year.

The clerk of courts office has had several vacancies so Boni said that there was quite a bit left in that line item for her department.

Because of this, even with the increases to her office staff that she proposed, she would still come in under budget at the end of the year. She said she would plan for minimal impact on the county taxpayers moving forward.