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Cochise County staff outline $1.9 million DPS grant to fund counterdrug team, raise pension and downstream-cost questions
Summary
County staff told the Board of Supervisors a continuation grant from the Arizona Department of Public Safety would fund wages and benefits for a counterdrug team; supervisors pressed staff about pension liabilities, jail costs and how future grants must account for general-fund impacts.
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors heard details Thursday about a continuation grant from the Arizona Department of Public Safety worth about $1.9 million that county staff said would pay wages and employee-related expenses for a county counterdrug team.
County staff said the funding would pay salaries and benefits for law-enforcement personnel assigned to drug- and smuggling-related enforcement work. Captain Jertie, speaking for the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office, described the grant as "funding to pay wages and EREs for those personnel that do that work." He said the positions funded by the grant are “roughly, 9 deputies and, a captain and 2 sergeant's positions.”
The nut of the discussion was budgetary and long-term: supervisors pressed staff on whether grant-funded positions create future pension liabilities and…
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