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Supervisors weigh market adjustments, attrition plan and targeted raises for frontline deputies
Summary
Board members and staff discussed rolling forward FY25 personnel numbers, a staff recommendation to allot $1.18M for market adjustments, options to trim positions via attrition, and a board request to ensure frontline sheriff deputies and corrections officers receive a 3% increase.
Cochise County supervisors and staff discussed how to balance employee pay and benefits with constrained revenues during the May 14 budget work session.
County staff told the board they rolled forward the amended FY25 personnel budget into FY26 to capture last year’s market adjustments and that staff currently recommend allotting $1,180,000 for market adjustments and $1,210,000 for funding requests. "Our current recommendation right now is allotting $1,180,000 to market adjustments and $1,210,000 to funding requests," County staff Stacy said in the presentation.
Board members emphasized using attrition and an evaluation process to reduce lower‑priority positions. One supervisor proposed scoring positions on a 1–5 scale for criticality and leaving 1–2 positions unfilled as vacancies occur, reserving replacements for positions ranked 4–5.
Supervisors discussed a specific request from sheriff leadership to bring sergeants and deputies to a 3% increase. Stacy provided a staff calculation for the delta to achieve a 3% increase for 'sergeants and below' and frontline corrections officers; the presentation included a figure of roughly $100,268 for that targeted 3% increment for the affected group (presented as the calculated delta to reach 3%). Staff also reported the budget includes a continued $5,000,000 additional payment to PSPRS for unfunded liability in FY26 planning.
Other personnel items discussed: CECOM (county communications) requested five additional dispatchers and an administrative aide and proposed to fund them from CECOM fund balance; Bowie Justice Court requested a clerk funded from court enhancement funds; some positions previously grant‑funded (DEMA) have returned to the general fund after the grants ended.
No final personnel decisions were adopted at the May 14 session; supervisors directed staff to refine costings and to continue developing an evaluation framework for filling vacancies and distributing market adjustments.
