Collin County approves overtime budget moves for animal shelter and jail operations

At a session of the Collin County Commissioners Court, the court approved budget amendments to cover overtime for the county animal shelter and jail operations and authorized the budget department to move salary-savings to the jail overtime line.

County Administrator Yoon Kim told the court the animal shelter is seeking a $46,100 budget amendment for overtime funded from the animal shelter fund balance. For the sheriff's office, Kim said the jail operations overtime line had $86,601.02 as of the Feb. 7 paycheck and the administration requested a transfer of $31,823 from jail operations salary savings to the overtime line and an overall overtime line of approximately $118,424.02 after the transfer. He also asked the court to authorize the budget department to sweep salary savings from other sheriff's office general fund salary and fringe lines retroactively, after a pay period closes, to support jail overtime as needed.

Kim said the requested amounts are based on FY2024 actual expenditures and that the amendments should be sufficient for the rest of the fiscal year if the sheriff continues efforts to reduce overtime. He noted pay-period comparisons to show reduced overtime: $144,729 for the pay period ending Dec. 8, 2024, versus $61,901 for the pay period ending Feb. 2, 2025.

A motion to approve the amendments received a second and carried on a 4–0 vote.

The court referenced the county's overtime policy (described in the meeting as "overtime policy order 2020Four-seven40Eight-eight-five, passed Aug. 5, 2024") as the governing guideline for moving funds into overtime lines and for retroactive salary-savings sweeps.

No specific mover or seconder names were recorded on the public transcript; the vote was announced by the presiding official as 4 to 0 in favor.