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Board approves remaining operational budgets; salaries deferred for follow-up
Summary
Commissioners approved non-salary operational portions of multiple department budgets and asked staff to return corrected PR tabs for salary and benefits decisions at the next meeting; several items (assessor chief deputy, county attorney staffing) were left for further clarification.
Sheridan County commissioners approved the operational (non-salary) portions of department budgets across multiple offices and directed staff to return with updated PR pages for salary and benefit votes scheduled for the next session.
The board approved operational line items for county attorney, assessor and other departments, and they removed three positions from one budget after an earlier motion. Commissioners repeatedly asked HR and finance to circulate corrected PR tabs because the spreadsheet that had been circulated contained color-coded changes and a corrected formula that staff said had removed a nearly $500,000 error. The board also instructed the assessor, county attorney and clerk to work with finance to clarify the chief deputy/promotional scenarios and to show revised bottom-line numbers when salaries are considered.
What comes next: the board set a near-term timeline for staff to produce the corrected PR pages and for commissioners to vote on salaries and benefits at the follow-up meeting.
