Pulaski County sheriff presents 2025–26 budget with 5% wage guideline, vehicle requests and fund reallocations

Pulaski County Sheriff (name not specified) told county commissioners that the sheriff’s office budget for 2025–26 largely holds baseline spending steady while reflecting an instructed 5% wage increase and several internal fund shifts.

The sheriff said the department “was instructed not to do any increases, which we didn't,” and that personnel costs are the principal change in the general fund. He told commissioners an overtime line appears lower on the main printout (from about $105,000 to $100,000) after moving some pay into other funds and that the office transferred $15,000 into Public Safety fund 11.70 for the chief deputy’s overtime and related costs.

The sheriff listed several separate funds that affect department budgeting, including the general fund (1000), the accident-report fund…