TOP SHERIFF OFFICIALS SALARIESFiscal 2012 salary – Fiscal 2013 salary – IncreaseGene A. Bennett, director of Support Services: $69,355 – $71,455 – $2,100Allen Branum, chief deputy: $87,000 – $89,610 – $2,610Patricia Anne Brown, executive secretary: $44,500 – $47,000 – $2,500Ronald Parson, deputy chief: $69,355 – $71,455 – $2,100Donald Gorman, director of administration: $69,355 – $71,455 – $2,100
Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond warned county commissioners when he asked them for a 7.7 percent budget increase Monday that several areas of this year’s budget already are in the red by at least six figures.
County records show individual overages in the sheriff’s department totaling almost a half million dollars. But those numbers don’t always add up against last year’s approved budget and this year’s requested salary totals.
Hammond is asking for a $1.85 million increase to the $26.95 million commissioners gave him last year.
Hammond said the department’s overtime budget is already $260,000 in the red for fiscal 2012 and also said food costs in the jail are overbudget by at least $100,000.