We are posting these for one reason. This is public money and public record, and people in Nye County ought to be able to read it in one place instead of going looking for it. This is not a shot at the Sheriff's Office. The deputies covered by these contracts do a hard job, and we appreciate and respect that.
The county has posted the union contracts covering its sworn officers. There are three, because the ranks do not bargain together.
Deputies. Deputy sheriffs, detention deputies, investigators and the court bailiff. Runs to June 30, 2027. Signed by Commissioner Debra Strickland and association president Eric Anderson. Read it.
Sergeants. Sergeants and detention sergeants. Runs to June 30, 2029. Signed by Commissioner Ron Boskovich and Nicholas Augustine. Read it.
Lieutenants. Lieutenants only. Runs to June 30, 2027. Signed by Commissioner Bruce Jabbour and James McRae. Read it.
The Sheriff does not sign these. The deal is between the county and the officers, so the commission chair signs one side and the officers' own union president signs the other. The chair rotates, which is why three different commissioners signed.
Inside each one: pay, overtime, holidays, vacation, sick leave, uniform money, and the steps the county has to follow before it disciplines an officer.
Two things stand out. The sergeants got four years while the other two got three, so they stay under contract two years after the others run out. And bound into the back of the lieutenants' file is a settlement from January 2024. Their contract had been expired since June 2022, the two sides argued over a cost of living clause, and the county granted a 3.25 percent raise backdated to July 2021 and struck the clause out.
Wages are the bulk of what the Sheriff's Office costs, and they are set in these three documents. We looked at that spending in What's Eating The Sheriff's Budget.
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Sources: the county posted these on its Labor Relations page. We keep our own copies so the links keep working. Names and dates come from the signature pages.
