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Sheriff outlines multi-part pay plan; union leaders warn of turnover and hiring costs
Summary
Potter County sheriff’s office presented a multi-pronged salary proposal covering jail nursing pay, a 3% across‑the‑board raise, targeted career-officer increases and expanded certificate pay; the county union warned the county is losing deputies and cited a $40,664 estimated per-new-hire replacement cost.
Sheriff’s office leaders asked the commissioners to approve a multi-part salary package that would target staffing shortages and retention problems across the agency.
The four elements presented were: (1) raise detention nursing pay by moving nurses and the nursing supervisor up one pay step, (2) a 3 percent across-the-board adjustment for employees in addition to any Cola, (3) targeted “career officer” raises for deputies, corporals and sergeants to narrow a 19 percent pay gap that exists between sergeant and lieutenant ranks, and (4) an expanded TCOLE proficiency-certificate stipend that…
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