YCSO presents SB 22 grant plan News Staff Tue, 04/09/2024 - 2:03 pm
- (TC GORDON | THE GRAHAM LEADER) Young County Sheriff Travis Babcock (right) and Young County Judge Win Graham presented a plan Monday, April 8 for grant money received with Senate Bill 22. The bill provides financial assistance to sheriff’s departments, constable’s offices and district and county attorney’s offices in eligible counties.
TC Gordon news@grahamleader.com
Young County will be receiving financial assistance for the Young County Sheriff’s Office with a grant agreement from Senate Bill 22.
At commissioners court Monday, April 8, Young County Judge Win Graham and Young County Sheriff Travis Babcock presented the plan they have come up with for using the grant money.
According to the Texas Comptroller website, “Senate Bill (SB) 22 establishes a grant program that will provide financial assistance to sheriff’s departments, constable’s offices and district and county attorney’s offices in eligible counties to ensure professional law enforcement and legal representation of the people’s interests throughout the state.”
With Young County’s population over 10,000 but less than 50,000, the county will receive $350,000 to aid in the improvement of YCSO.
Grant funds awarded shall be used to provide a minimum annual salary of at least $75,000 for the county sheriff, $45,000 for each deputy who makes motor vehicle stops in the routine performance of their duties and $40,000 for each jailer whose duties include the safekeeping of prisoners and the security of a jail operated by the county.
The funding can additionally be used to increase the salary of those employed in one of those three positions, to hire additional staff for the sheriff’s office or to purchase vehicles, firearms and safety equipment for the sheriff’s office.
The proposal will be to provide the sheriff a salary supplement so his annual salary comes out to $75,000. The chief deputy will receive a $10,000 salary supplement, two investigators will receive $7,000 supplements, eight deputies/training coordinators/civil processors will receive $5,000 supplements and the jail administrator will receive a $7,000 supplement.
The assistant jail administrator will receive a $6,000 salary supplement, six shift supervisor jailers will receive $5,000 supplements and twelve jailers will receive $4,000 supplements. The YSCO will also create two new positions: a SB 22 deputy with a salary and supplement total of $56,099 and a SB 22 jailer with a total salary and supplement of $47,892.
“The way (we’d) like to do that is to make those payments quarterly,” Young County Judge Win Graham said. “...Since we’re starting halfway through the year, we won’t have to reduce it for next year. But it will give the sheriff almost $180,000 to spend on equipment.”
The county needs to spend the money by Sept. 30 because anything not spent will go back to the state. Only two quarterly payments will be made for these salaries and their supplements before that deadline, so YCSO will be able to use the rest of the money on equipment and upgrades.
Young County will spend approximately $171,347.51 on the salary supplements between now and the end of September. The remaining $178,652.49 of the overall grant total of $350,000 will be dedicated for equipment.
With next year’s SB 22 grant money, the large majority of it will be dedicated to the salaries and supplements, due to having a full year of time to make every quarterly payment.
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