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increase in state support. That is less than what the county will receive for education, or $222,190, based on the governor’s new budget.
Public safety
In terms of departments, public safety—the Sheriff’s Office in particular—will be the county’s second largest beneficiary of the new budget’s terms.
Sheriff Larry Sherertz is looking forward to salary increases of 4.82 percent for his 23 full-time deputies and himself that will not take effect, he Says, until December 2004. In dollars and cents for a deputy on a starting salary of $23,854, the extra raise provided by the state budget increase will mean $1,149 per year, or “a nice little raise,” says the sheriff, who will also see a bump of $4,609 in his salary.
Sheriff Sherertz was not complaining and could well have been speaking for other county officials when he said, “I’m glad to get it, even if it is less than I’d hoped for.”
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