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Weber County Commission approves 2025 budget amendments, compensation increases for public‑safety staff
Summary
The Weber County Commission adopted Resolution 33-2025 to amend the 2025 operating and capital budget, approving grant-driven spending increases, a $2 million compensation adjustment for sheriff’s office personnel from a Baker Tilly pay study, and a new transfer‑station position funded from the station’s fund balance.
The Weber County Commission on July 29 approved Resolution 33-2025 amending the county’s 2025 operating and capital budget to reflect new grant revenue, personnel cost changes and equipment and project rollovers.
The change package, presented by county staff member Stephanie Ebert, includes a $3.8 million state grant for an ice-sheet remodel, adjustments to health‑department and jail grants, a $2 million increase to cover compensation adjustments for public‑safety staff in the sheriff’s office, and funding for an additional transfer‑station truck driver paid from the transfer station’s fund balance.
“ We had a $3,800,000 grant that we received from the state for the ice sheet remodel,” Ebert said during the public hearing, summarizing the principal revenue changes and related expenditure increases. She also told commissioners the compensation adjustments reflect results from a countywide pay study and that other changes covered equipment repairs and project rollovers from 2024.
Commissioners discussed the compensation study’s scope and implementation. Commissioners said the county hired Baker Tilly to conduct the pay study, and that the sheriff requested a targeted focus on line‑level enforcement positions. Commissioners said the county intends to implement Baker Tilly’s recommendations promptly rather than phasing increases over multiple years.
The transfer‑station position was described as an operational response to increased workload; county staff said the hire will be paid from the transfer station’s separate fund balance and is not drawn from the general fund. Other budget items cited in the presentation included reporting adjustments for jail grants and changes related to department vehicle policies for division directors designed to address federal tax reporting on take‑home vehicles.
During the consent portion of the meeting staff also summarized purchase orders and warrants, noting about $1.99 million in warrants that included payments for ramp awards to Washington Terrace and Roy, an OACC remodel, monthly contributions to Weber Human Services, and payments to the Ogden Weber Convention & Visitors Bureau. Those consent items were approved separately by motion earlier in the meeting.
Commissioners moved and seconded the resolution and adopted it by roll‑call vote, with the clerk recording ayes and the motion carrying. No public comments were made during the hearings on the budget amendments.
The resolution and the Baker Tilly compensation report were discussed as forthcoming public documents; staff said the pay‑study materials would be posted online in the next few days for public review.
