Stark county officials make pitches for funding
The commissioners kicked off their first day of the 2018 budget hearings with presentations from top officials at the
This year and last year, the commissioners began the hearings in November with the goal of announcing funding appropriations for each county agency by Christmas.
In the past, the final budget was often not ready by January or even February after the commissioners made the initial provisional appropriations to cover the first quarter. Last year, their office released the 2017 budget by mid-December, which may be the earliest in recent memory. By law, the commissioner must approve the county's budget by the end of March.
Nearly all of the budget requests featured raises of 2 percent for most county employees. It's a figure that commissioners have generally allowed to stay in line with inflation but have resisted larger amounts unless an employee is assigned more responsibilities, promoted or the employee's salary is substantially less than for another worker in a comparable position.
Here are some highlights of the budget discussions:
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She and the board's director,
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Hemphill who was accompanied by three judges said that a state law requiring that people convicted of fifth-degree non-violent felony crimes could generally not be sent to a state prison meant that the court would need more funding to monitor such offenders on probation. He also said that the court is losing probation officers to other agencies that pay more, so the court requested an 8 percent salary hike for probation officers, which would cost about
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Hearings will not be held for county agencies if their officials did not seek one. The next budget hearings will be Wednesday for the county prosecutor's office at
Creighton made it clear to the officials she wasn't promising any level of funding.
"We'll be in touch with you," she said.
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