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Proposal to hire beyond funded positions and separate sworn pay scales drawn as tools to reduce overtime and improve retention
Summary
A commissioner proposed allowing the sheriffs office to recruit and train a pool of additional (unfunded) correctional and law-enforcement positions to shorten hiring pipelines and reduce overtime; committee members also discussed separate public-safety pay scales and the limits of local authority on property-tax rates.
A county commissioner proposed a staffing strategy to address chronic turnover in the sheriffs office: allow the department to recruit and train additional deputies and correctional officers beyond currently funded positions (a pool of unfunded PCNs) so more personnel are in the hiring pipeline and overtime demands are reduced.
The proposal would not increase appropriated dollars…
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