Title
Receive the Sheriff's Office Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-18 mid-year financial status report.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors' Budget Committee to receive the Sheriff's Office Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-18 mid-year financial status report.
SUMMARY:
The Sheriff's Office (the Office) is pleased to report that there are eight safety position vacancies which includes one Chief Deputy Sheriff's position and 14 support staff vacancies as of this writing. A year ago, the Office had 31 safety position vacancies and 13 support staff vacancies. Between January 2017 and January 2018, there were 14 safety and six support staff separations which means 37 hires in safety positions and five hires in support positions. The Office has been focused on hiring and filling safety positions but now it puts more efforts in filling support staff positions. All 25 patrol deputies who were transferred to Corrections Operations to fill in the mandatory positions transferred back to Patrol Operations. Because of fewer vacancies, the overtime spending is getting less in each pay period. However, there is less salary and benefits savings to close the overtime funding gap. There are eleven trainees at the Jail and five trainees at the Patrol and the training program takes three to four months for the Jail and five months for the Patrol. Additionally, there are nine recruits in Police Academy. At any time of a year, there are 30 to 40 safety employees who are not fully functional for various reasons. Therefore, it is inevitable to incur overtime to fill the mandatory positions and to provide law enforcement and protection services to public. The overtime overrun is expected to be $3.4 million at the end of the fiscal year and the salaries and benefits savings due to vacancies are expected to be $1.9 million, $1.5 million net shortage in salaries and benefits. The $1.5 million shortage in salaries and benefits include unbudgeted $100,000 retirees' m...
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