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Sheriff Krenshaw asks council for more deputies, tech and equipment as budgets rise
Summary
Sheriff Krenshaw presented the combined requests for animal control, detention, communications and the sheriff’s office, seeking new positions, overtime increases and capital spending for shelter generators and ballistic window retrofits amid rising personnel and medical costs.
Sheriff Krenshaw told the Budget, Finance and Administrative Committee that personnel drives roughly 80% of the combined cost for the sheriff’s four department budgets and outlined multiple requests to keep services operating amid rising costs. "I operate sheriff's office on about 1.7 million a year currently," Krenshaw said, noting that most of the four budgets are personnel and fringe costs.
Krenshaw said animal control faces higher medical and operational expenses after a large seizure case and is out of funding for its low‑income spay/neuter voucher program; he asked for a…
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