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Supervisors dig into Patrick County budget: public safety pay, ambulances, generator grant and contributions under review
Summary
During an extended Feb. 1 budget work session the Patrick County Board of Supervisors probed multiple spending requests and priorities including sheriff pay and retention, ambulance replacement timing and costs, a proposed generator for county administration, library and nonprofit contributions, and capital security upgrades.
The Patrick County Board of Supervisors spent much of its Feb. 1 meeting in a detailed budget work session, questioning staffing costs and program requests and flagging multiple items for follow-up before finalizing the fiscal-year budget.
Supervisors discussed law-enforcement staffing and pay after the county's sheriff described statewide recruitment pressures. The sheriff reported the Virginia State Police and other agencies are offering substantially higher pay and signing bonuses (examples cited in his remarks included $67,109 plus a $5,000 signing bonus for experienced officers), and told the board the county risks losing deputies unless it develops a multiyear compensation plan. The sheriff requested phased pay improvements and restoration of a previously reduced dispatch funding allocation to cover peak hours.
Ambulance replacement was a separate, immediate concern. Staff and the board said new ambulances now cost in the range of roughly…
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