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Judiciary seeks $558,566 for sheriff contracts, cites pilot docket gains and asks to convert 26 term-limited positions
Summary
State court leaders told the House Appropriations Committee that a $558,566 increase in contracted sheriff pay and $128,716 in pilot-docket costs are needed to sustain courthouse coverage and a three‑month accountability pilot; they also requested conversion of 26 term-limited positions to permanent status for retention.
Terry Corson, the State Court Administrator, and Greg Mosley, the judiciary’s chief of finance and administration, asked the House Appropriations Committee on Dec. 17 to approve Budget Adjustment Act changes to cover a negotiated sheriff contract rate increase and pilot-court costs and to begin administrative steps to make 26 term-limited judiciary positions permanent.
Corson and Mosley said the sheriff contract rate will rise to $57 an hour, a $3-per-hour increase that they estimate will cost $558,566 and help preserve deputy coverage in courthouses amid recruitment challenges. Mosley told the committee three counties currently do not contract for courthouse deputies after retirements and difficulties in recruitment.
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