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Montezuma County DA asks commissioners to budget for full staffing as state raises DA, ADA salaries
Summary
The district attorney told commissioners the office needs budget changes to reflect six full-time attorneys and statutory increases to the district attorney and assistant district attorney salaries, and warned grant reductions have cut other funding streams.
The District Attorney told the Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners on the record that the office’s true operating cost with six attorneys is about $1.2 million and asked the board to reflect that figure in next year’s budget.
That request matters because, the DA said, “our budget was only 1,050,060… We did spend the 1.2.” He asked the commissioners to consider covering roughly an additional $150,000 so the office’s 2026 budget “truly reflect[s] that 1.2 as our budget.”
The DA framed the request as partly a response to two recent changes from the state: a statutory increase to the…
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