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Preliminary FY2026 budget hearing spotlights detention center pay proposal and multiple departmental requests
Summary
Department heads outlined preliminary FY2026 requests across public safety, roads, fleet, IT, airport and transit. The detention center requested a sizable salary increase for retention and capital upgrades; sheriff requested funding to continue DARE and an administrative assistant for civil process.
Grant County held a preliminary FY2026 budget hearing April 24 in which elected officials and department heads summarized spending requests and priorities for the coming year.
Detention center: Joseph Anasola, representing the detention facility, presented the facility's budget ask and said the detention center is requesting $2,168,936 for salaries (an increase the transcript lists as a $812,311 change). "Currently, we're starting officers at $16 an hour," Anasola said in the meeting. "With this increase, we're gonna start them at $17.53." Anasola also requested capital and maintenance funds including roughly $85,000 to replace an end-of-life PLC control system that operates doors and locks and about $14,845 for an AI upgrade to the facility's body scanner to detect contraband automatically. He noted the facility has used the scanner to find contraband and to reduce overdoses but said…
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