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Sheriff’s office reports personnel changes and budget shifts; board approves promotions and fleet update
Summary
The Tunica County Sheriff’s Office reported promotions, a part-time hire, budget reallocations to fund salary increases, and approved a fleet replacement that modestly raised the monthly lease cost; the board accepted related payments and meal logs.
The Tunica County Sheriff’s Office presented personnel and budget items and won board approvals July 7 for promotions, personnel changes and fleet adjustments.
Sheriff’s Office representatives asked the board to accept two money orders totaling $1,500 and to approve a fleet-management update after the procurement of a 2025 Ram 1500 (the agency reported keeping the fleet at 56 vehicles and increasing the monthly lease cost by $130.72). The board moved and carried motions to accept the payments and to approve the fleet item.
The sheriff’s office also detailed salary increases for law enforcement that were funded internally by dissolving certain administrative positions (a commander position with an annual salary of $70,012.80, a property-room clerk at about $42,952 annually, and a crime victim assistant position at roughly $34,719), which the office said yielded about $147,683.80 to cover raises. The salary increase package was described as costing $145,813.76 and reported as within the existing fiscal-year budget, with no new funding requested.
The board approved promotion of Deputy Terrence Tanner to full-time firefighter I for the North Tunica Fire District at $15 per hour (effective 07/08/2025) and the promotion of deputy Kenny Hall to lieutenant at $25.94 per hour; the board also approved appointment of Lorraine Watson as part-time deputy jailer/property & evidence clerk at $17.20 per hour (effective 07/07/2025).
Supervisors asked questions about staffing levels and recruitment pressures; transcript remarks show discussion of maintaining a sufficient number of officers to ensure street coverage. The meeting record shows the motions carried on the presented personnel and budget items.
