Don Beason charged Catawba County nearly $6,000 a month.
According to a December 2006 contract obtained by Dome, the lobbyist earned a monthly salary of $5,250 plus $500 per month in expenses.
A spokesman for the county said that it had paid a total of $38,521 to Beason's company, The Capital Group, under the agreement. The city of Hickory will reimburse the county for half that amount.
In the contract, Beason noted that it was discounted from a $7,000 monthly fee.
Beason's contract was suspended when the session ended, pending a year-end review by the Catawba County board of commissioners.
He had lobbied in part on the county's fight with Concord and Kannapolis over water use. A House bill passed this session addressed the issue, directing the Environmental Review Commission to study transfers from one water basin to another.
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