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Board declines to add new County Attorney programs in FY26; alternative prosecution request postponed
Summary
The county manager recommended not funding the County Attorney’s lower-priority increment requests, including a proposed alternative prosecution position; supervisors asked for broader CJCC review and discussion next year.
Coconino County supervisors on May 16 declined to add new recurring positions in the County Attorney’s Office for fiscal 2026, following the county manager’s recommendation to fund only the department’s top-priority requests and defer lower-priority, new recurring programs including an alternative prosecution position.
Why it matters: The County Attorney’s proposed expansions included several new or expanded programs — the alternative prosecution position, an anti-human-trafficking unit expansion, and additional law-clerk hours — that the attorney described as part of a longer-term transformation of prosecution. County management recommended investing instead in non-recurring or software priorities and one division position the manager flagged as higher priority.
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