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Spokane County preserves $300,000 of budget capacity to avert prosecutor layoffs, debates moving interpreter fees
Summary
After a lengthy hearing, commissioners penciled roughly $300,000 of budget capacity to prevent two prosecutor layoffs and discussed moving interpreter fees out of the prosecutor’s operating budget into a centralized county line to improve management of rising costs.
Spokane County commissioners on Nov. 3 discussed preserving roughly $300,000 of budget capacity to avoid layoffs in the prosecutor’s office while considering reassigning interpreter fees to a centralized county budget line.
Prosecuting attorney (Speaker 9) told the board the office faces persistent vacancies — “7 to 10 vacant attorney positions” — and rapidly rising interpreter costs. "Last year interpreter fees budgeted were $91,000 and actuals hit $324,000," Speaker 9…
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