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Sheriff details $84.5M operations budget, highlights $19M firearms-range project and staffing shortfalls
Summary
Sheriff Shannon Moon briefed supervisors on a proposed FY26–27 Sheriff's Office budget that includes a $19 million regional firearms training facility (with $12.5M planned draw in FY26–27), body-camera costs and ongoing staffing shortages affecting response times.
Sheriff Shannon Moon presented the Nevada County Sheriff's Office proposed 2026–27 budget at the board's budget workshop, detailing a multi-unit plan that covers patrol, corrections, dispatch and animal control.
Moon said the Sheriff's Office overall proposed revenues total about $77.0 million and projected expenditures about $84.5 million. The largest single year-over-year change is the use of sheriff special revenue funds to begin construction on a regional firearms training facility: the office assumes approximately $12.5 million in expenditures in FY26–27 on a project with a total estimated cost of about $19 million. Moon said those restricted sheriff special-revenue funds have been saved over multiple years and that the county general fund is not contributing to the project.
The presentation also described ongoing investments in the body-worn-camera program (approximately $391,000 this year for third-year costs), upgrades to radio and records systems, and assumed reimbursements (including approximately $498,000 in Medi-Cal reimbursements for targeted jail medical services tied to the CalAIM Justice Initiative).
Moon and Chief Fiscal Administrative Officer Georgette Aronow explained the office balanced the budget by cutting or deferring roughly $578,000 in operations items, including vehicle replacements, specialized marine/diving gear and some training travel. Moon emphasized chronic staffing challenges: the Sheriff's Office remains below pre‑recession deputy counts, with roughly 1 deputy per 1,000 residents and persistent recruitment difficulties that lengthen response times in this geographically large county.
Supervisors pressed the sheriff's team on the cuts and the tradeoffs between delaying equipment purchases and maintaining operational readiness; the under-sheriff and finance staff explained cuts were intended to avoid deferred‑maintenance growth but acknowledged some deferred purchases increase future cost risk.
What to watch: the range project spans several fiscal years and is funded from restricted sheriff special revenue; other capital and correctional facility needs were noted but not fully funded in the draft. The board will weigh requests and possible referrals to budget subcommittees as the review continues.
