Arkansas County – AR issued the following announcement on Dec. 16.
The Baxter County Quorum Court approved the 2022 county budget on Tuesday, Dec. 7, with the biggest item on the agenda being a wage increase for all deputies and jailers with the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office.
In September, the quorum court voted unanimously to adopt a new personnel policy manual for the sheriff’s office, the first step in the process to separate these employees in the county’s wage scale.
With the county already budgeting a $1 per hour increase to all employees in 2022, Sheriff John Montgomery faced several hard questions when he proposed an increase of $270,000 for the department. He says the primary reason for the increase was a lack of recruitment and retention towards other local agencies who were paying on average $5,000-6,000 more just to “walk across the street.” #ARcounties #arlawenforcement
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Source: Arkansas County – AR
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