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Sullivan County Working to Resolve Sherriff’s Office Raises

Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Sep 15, 2023

Sullivan County commissioners want to give a raise to uniformed officers in the sheriff's office, but are still working out what the budget impact would be and how big a raise they can fund, The Kingsport Times News report. The commission's Budget Committee has given its OK to a $1,045,000 budget for the department, but Michael Kennedy, finance director for the sheriff’s office, says the amount approved would not fund the $3 per hour raise that Sheriff Jeff Cassidy has proposed. Kennedy calculates the department would need $1.68 million to fund raises for 270 officers over an entire year. Commissioners will continue work on the budget next week.