Budget & Finances

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The FY 2025 adopted expenditure budget for the Sheriff’s Office is $53,568,432, a six percent increase from the FY 2024 adopted budget. The FY 2025 adopted expenditure budget reflects: 

The County Board added funding for the following items: 

  • a one-time hiring bonus for uniform employees ($138,000); 
  • the reclassification of a physician assistant to a doctor position to oversee the Inmate  

Medical Care program ($100,000); 

  • a one-time retention bonus of $2,750 for uniform employees ($887,333); 
  • the purchase of additional inmate medical monitoring bracelets ($113,000 one-time, $108,000 ongoing); and increased overtime budget resulting from the Family Leave Benefit update from 10 weeks to 16 weeks ($110,040). 

 

- Personnel increases due to employee salary increases; adjustments to salaries resulting from Human Resources and Safety, Judicial Services, and Accounting, Fiscal, Revenue Services, and Financial job family studies ($138,355); the addition of full-year funding for a Physician Assistant position (reclassified at budget adoption as noted above) to oversee the Inmate Medical Care program ($205,000, 1.0 FTE); and slightly higher retirement contributions based on actuarial projections. These increases are partially offset by the transfer of a Senior Public Safety Applications Developer and a Public Safety Technology Specialist position to the Police department to consolidate the Sheriff Information Technology team and the Public Safety Information Technology (PSIT) unit ($318,693, 2.0 FTEs), the removal of FY 2024 one-time overtime funding for recruitment efforts and a 1.75 overtime pay rate ($159,020), and the reductions itemized below. 

- Non-personnel increases primarily due to inmate medical care contractual increases  ($381,529), partial year funding for the implementation of a new body worn camera program in the Detention Center starting in quarter two of FY 2025 ($172,687), one-time funding for a half-year of contracted security in the Courts Building ($116,000), one-time funding for the Medication Assisted Treatment program to treat substance abuse ($222,000), an adjustment to electricity ($327,602), adjustments to the annual expense for maintenance and replacement of County vehicles ($40,883), partially offset by the removal of FY 2023 one-time funding for the replacement of central washing machines in the Detention Center ($70,000), recruitment ($20,000), and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) and the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) audits ($17,500). Fee revenues decreases result from lower Alcohol Safety Action Program (ASAP) fees based on program participation ($27,950), lower projections in Falls Church reimbursements based on the FY 2025 budget and reconciliation of prior year payments with actual expenditures ($10,903), lower projections in Courthouse security fees ($125,000), and decreases in fingerprinting and other service fees ($34,500). 

  • Grant revenues increase due to increases in the State Compensation Board reimbursements ($357,476), an increase in the State’s Community Corrections pretrial program and other federal reimbursements ($26,651), partially offset by decreased projections in miscellaneous State and Federal US Marshals reimbursements ($9,120). 

FY 2025 Adopted Budget Reduction 

Corrections 

  • Freeze 2.0 vacant Deputy Sheriff positions ($210,200, 2.00 FTEs) IMPACT: The department has established minimum staffing levels to manage the orderly operations of the Arlington County Detention Facility safely and effectively. However, given the current level of vacancies, this reduction should not affect service delivery. If the Sheriff is able to fill all current vacancies, then the County Manager would return to the Board to seek funding to unfreeze these positions.  

 

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