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Kalamazoo County expands ARPA-funded hiring bonuses for sheriff's deputies, approves recruitment 'bounty' program
Summary
The Board approved reallocating remaining ARPA funds to extend hiring bonuses to corrections deputies and separately to corrections clerks and food service positions; it also approved a $1,000 county bounty payment for employees who successfully recruit new hires.
The Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners voted July 15 to expand a county program that uses American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money to pay hiring bonuses at the sheriff's office and to authorize an internal recruitment incentive.
Under two separate votes, the board approved allocating remaining ARPA funds to extend the sheriff's hiring bonus to corrections deputies and, in a second vote, to corrections clerks and food‑service specialists. The board also approved a “county bounty” program that will pay a $1,000 referral payment to any sheriff's office employee who recruits a new worker who completes the required probationary period.
The program is an extension of a hiring-and-retention effort the county has used for MCOLES‑certified deputies and, more recently, for nurses. Undersheriff Michelle Greenlee described the proposal as a tool to recruit and retain staff in positions the sheriff's…
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