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Freestone County reallocates SB 22 grant funds to raise deputies' starting pay
Summary
Freestone County Commissioners Court voted to allow the sheriff to use SB 22 grant funds to provide a pay supplement that raises deputies' starting base pay to $62,000, and the court agreed to remove two deputy positions from SB 22 funding; the motion carried.
Freestone County Commissioners Court voted to allow the sheriff to use SB 22 grant funds to provide a supplement that raises deputies' starting base pay to $62,000.
Speaker 4 told the court the auditor had clarified numbers and that the SB 22 account had shown an overage of about $172,771 at the time of the earlier review; Speaker 4 described a proposal…
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