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Jefferson County budget workshop focuses on staffing, software license costs and step‑and‑grade rules
Summary
Department heads reviewed FY budgets with commissioners, highlighting Esri per‑user licensing, a $22,000 jump in VMware support, multiple step/grade requests, and capital and vehicle reserve planning; board emphasized following step‑and‑grade policy and separated COLA decisions.
Jefferson County department heads spent the July 22 workshop detailing proposed budgets, personnel step/grade requests and several capital needs as commissioners prepared for final budget work over the coming weeks.
Highlights included the assessor’s warning that Esri changed its licensing model to require per‑user fees (Jessica Roach, Assessor), which she estimated at about $110 per user per year and asked departments to budget for. The county’s IT team and HR staff reported other software and infrastructure pressures; the IT manager said VMware support costs increased substantially after Broadcom’s acquisition and that the county faces a roughly $22,000 jump in support fees for…
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