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Sheriff presents Lions Club donation, signs 2025 policing contracts; personnel pay request denied
Summary
Sheriff Dillon reported a Lions Club donation for radios, signed policing contracts for 2025 with Carson, New Leipzig and Elgin, and requested a starting salary increase for administrative assistant Tabitha Zimmerman from $32,000 to $40,000; the board declined to change the starting salary.
Sheriff Dillon told the Grant County Commissioners on Oct. 16 that the Lions Club presented a check to the sheriff's office to buy radios and that contracts with the Cities of Carson, New Leipzig and Elgin for 2025 policing have been signed.
During the meeting the sheriff asked the board to increase the salary for administrative assistant Tabitha Zimmerman to $40,000; the minutes record that the board declined to raise the starting salary, which the minutes list as $32,000.
Sheriff Dillon also informed the board of an upcoming resignation from Gabriel Fiol effective Nov. 7, 2024. The minutes do not provide additional staffing details or a timeline for filling vacancies.
The minutes record these law-enforcement items as part of routine department updates during the session.
