NATCHEZ — Adams County Administrator Joe Murray will be eligible for a $7,350 raise next fiscal year.

The Adams County Board of Supervisors voted Monday to allow Murray as much as a 10-percent raise from his current salary, though the county administrator said he won’t take that full amount.

The vote came as the board began its initial budgeting work session for fiscal year 2013-2014.

Murray currently makes $73,500 a year. After thanking the board for the decision, Murray said he would cut $850 off the raise to keep it at $80,000.

“I am doing that because I like working with even numbers,” he said.

Board attorney Scott Slover said Murray has been able to save the county in excess of $300,000 a year since taking the position, and Supervisors’ President Darryl Grennell — who first proposed the raise in the meeting — said it was based on his performance and compared against what administrators in counties of similar size make.

“Adams County has a history of underpaying people who have helped this county and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the county administrator is a position that should have been properly funded,” Grennell said. “We need to get it up to speed.”

Murray first took office in August 2010, but resigned after only a month. He later stated that the resignation was in part due to the fact that he did not feel the pay reflected the workload.

The man picked to replace Murray, Paul T. Rosson, was hired at a rate of $75,000 a year later but resigned before ever spending a day in the office.

Murray was rehired in May 2011 after Grennell personally asked him to reconsider the position.

During the meeting Monday, the supervisors also discussed annual appropriations to various area agencies and organizations, and the board members almost across the board voted to deny any funding increases to those organizations. The full list of appropriations was not available Monday afternoon.

While the supervisors did vote to appropriate $10,000 to the Miss-Lou Regional Steering committee for joint industrial marketing purposes, they did so with the note that the funds would not be released without board approval, which would only come if the other entities participating in the steering committee also agreed to their share of the funds.

Grennell said he would also like a quarterly report from the steering committee group once the funds are released.

The board likewise instructed Slover to get an attorney general’s opinion about whether or not the county can make an appropriation to the Mississippi Food Network.