{"id":24347,"date":"2024-12-19T01:51:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T08:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-commissioners-deny-sheriff-offices-supplemental-budget-request\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:52:15","slug":"montezuma-county-commissioners-deny-sheriff-offices-supplemental-budget-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-commissioners-deny-sheriff-offices-supplemental-budget-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma County Commissioners deny Sheriff Office\u2019s supplemental budget request"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

At a special meeting over a month ago, the Montezuma County Sheriff first told the Montezuma County Board of County Commissioners his department was on track to overspend in 2024.<\/p>\n

After tabling the decision once and several meetings between the Sheriff\u2019s Office, administration and the finance department, the county commissioners decided to deny the supplemental budget request at their meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 17.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, this is going to be short and sweet,\u201d Commissioner Jim Candelaria said.<\/p>\n

The aforementioned groups \u201chave all worked together to minimize the overspending of the sheriff\u2019s budget by limiting overtime and other spending through the end of the year,\u201d Candelaria said.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve also transferred \u201cunexpended grant funding\u201d to the Sheriff\u2019s Office and jail budgets.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how much grant funding they\u2019ve transferred to mitigate the $239,000 overage, but Commissioner Kent Lindsay said \u201cwe\u2019re close\u201d in figuring it out.<\/p>\n

Travis Anderson, the county administrator, said, \u201cWe should know by the end of the year, hopefully by the 31st. That\u2019s where finance is punching numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the very last day of the year, the 31st, which also happens to be their last meeting of the year, Candelaria said, \u201cif necessary, we\u2019ll approve the supplemental budget \u2026 to make sure the general fund as a whole is not overspent.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear, \u201cHis (the sheriff) budget isn\u2019t being supplemented. We are supplementing the general fund if need be,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n

And that means taking money out of reserves to supplement the general fund, which the Sheriff\u2019s Office is part of.<\/p>\n

Already, the county is taking $1.7 million out of reserves this year to balance the general fund, an overage made possible by \u201ca conglomeration of things,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n

At the Dec. 17 meeting, the discussion was brief and cordial. Sheriff Steven Nowlin was not present, though he later said he was \u201cnot surprised\u201d by the decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for working with us,\u201d said Candelaria at the meeting as he addressed representatives from the Sheriff\u2019s Office. \u201cAlong with finance, for doing what we\u2019ve had to do in these troubled times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindsay said, \u201cI just wanted to thank you all for getting us to this point. We started with a big hole to fill, and you guys have really stepped up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thankful,\u201d said Montezuma County Undersheriff Tyson Cox. \u201cWe\u2019ve been able to get to a spot where we\u2019re at least able to minimize the impact as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a month of contemplation and condemnation, the county officially shot it down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78498,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347\/revisions\/78498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24347"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}