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Prosecutor seeks to use $250,000 state grant for victim portal subscription and short-term retention bonuses

3339313 · May 17, 2025

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Prosecutor Doug Lloyd presented a framework May 16 to spend a one-time $250,000 state grant on a two-year victim portal subscription and onetime retention bonuses for staff; Ways and Means approved sending the plan to the full board and to state treasury for final approval.

Prosecutor Doug Lloyd told the Eaton County Ways and Means Committee on May 16 that the county has been awarded a one-time state grant of $250,000 and outlined a plan to use the funds for two primary purposes: to subscribe to a victim portal service for two years and to offer short-term, clawback-protected retention payments to key prosecutor’s office staff.

Lloyd said the $250,000 was a separate line item in the state budget awarded to Eaton County and that the money arrived after delays in treasury review. He recommended using two years of a victim portal subscription—identified in the meeting as part of the Carpel platform—to improve outreach and communication with victims, many of whom are transient and rely on mobile phones for contact.

The second proposed use is a targeted retention payment to currently staffed attorneys, legal assistants and victim advocates. Lloyd said the plan would offer a one-time payment equal to 12% of an employee’s salary at their top classification level, with the payment distributed Sept. 12 and subject to a six-month retention requirement; employees who leave before the six months would be required to repay a prorated portion. Staff told the committee the structure was designed to be compliant with treasury rules and to be neutral to the county general fund by recycling the same pool of money if employees separate.

Administration and the prosecutor’s office asked the committee to forward the framework and application to the full county board and to allow the prosecuting attorney and administration to finalize details with treasury if small edits are required. Ways and Means voted to move the framework to the full board; the prosecutor and staff said they had a one-week extension from treasury to submit final documents and planned to seek final approval at the upcoming full-board meeting.

Lloyd emphasized that the grant is one-time funding and said the retention payments are intended to preserve capacity in the office given recruiting and retention pressures across the state.