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Perry police chief urges pay adjustments, cites high caseloads; council hears $59,000 budget ask
Summary
Police Chief Hansi asked the council to increase police pay to align with larger county agencies and flagged heavy caseloads (about 1,189 cases per officer in 2024). Chief also requested a $5,000 allocation for Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) overtime and expenses; council heard the request but did not decide.
Police Chief Hansi told the Perry City Council on April 10 that Perry's officers handle a higher per‑officer caseload than other agencies in the county and urged council consideration of pay adjustments to help retention and morale.
Chief Hansi said Perry recorded roughly 1,189 cases per officer in 2024, compared with a county average of about 763 per officer; he told the council the department's caseload continues to rise and that a larger share of the department's work is proactive policing. Hansi said recent work has included several major drug and prostitution enforcement actions and search warrants.
Finance staff provided cost modeling for a proposed police pay package championed by the chief. Under the city's regular compensation tools the budgeted base wages for all employees would cost about $61,266 for the police adjustments described in the budget packet; applying the chief's requested market adjustments would raise the wages figure to $103,495 and increase benefits costs by roughly $16,939, producing a total additional cost to the city of about $59,001.68 (staff noted some numbers are estimates and would be refined in a follow‑up study). Finance staff said the chief's package would bring officers closer to pay averages for the larger county agencies (Brigham City, Box Elder County and Tremonton), which the chief used for comparison.
Chief Hansi also asked for a $5,000 increase in the police budget to cover overtime and related costs for Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force work. He said his first year on the task force produced several federal felony cases, recovery of hundreds of files and work that required significant overtime; Hansi requested the additional dollars to avoid running out of overtime budget while the department pursues federal ICAC investigations.
Council members expressed support for paying higher performing officers but asked for data showing whether the proposed increases would be targeted at officers with stronger performance measures and for a broader study of county comparators before approving the higher cost. No formal action on the chief's pay proposal or ICAC funding request was taken April 10; staff said a more detailed compensation study could follow and that the police budget proposal would be included for council consideration as part of the remaining budget hearings.
