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Sheriff's office warns of staff losses, urges larger raises beyond proposed COLA
Summary
Sheriff's-office representatives told the court a 1.5% cost-of-living adjustment is insufficient, reporting multiple recent job-leaving incidents and urging the commissioners to consider larger pay increases to retain deputies and corrections staff.
Representatives of the sheriff's office thanked the court for the proposed 1.5% cost-of-living adjustment but warned that it is insufficient to keep staff, citing recent applications for higher-paying jobs by five employees. The speaker urged the court to prioritize competitive pay to avoid service gaps and loss of institutional training investments.
"In the last week alone, 5 sheriff's office employees have notified the agency of their application for better paying jobs following the lack of action by the court," a sheriff's-office representative said, describing the departures as both avoidable and costly. The representative and allied speakers argued that failing to act would erode public-safety capacity, create overtime pressures, and reduce services such as vacation checks and timely responses.
Commissioners recognized the retention problem but said the broader budget context — limited revenues, fund-balance constraints, and competing department needs — requires modeling and trade-off analysis. No final vote on additional raises was recorded in the supplied transcript.
