KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho — The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office has unveiled a proposed budget for fiscal year 2025.
Undersheriff Brett Nelson said the agency’s proposed budget for 2025 is north of $50 million. The county’s $141 million adopted budget for 2024 allotted about $44 million for the sheriff’s office.
“This year, we worked toward ensuring that we had what we needed to be the most effective, efficient and safe in providing services to the community,” Nelson told commissioners during a Monday morning budget meeting.
Kootenai County commissioners will weigh the proposal as part of the budgeting process.
“Now, we just need to look through this and try to discern what we can keep and what we might have to push off a year or so,” Commissioner Bruce Mattare said.
Stephanie Drobny, KCSO’s chief budget officer, highlighted a requested increase of $691,711 for the jail. Much of the request comes from increased costs for medical services, food services and utilities, as well as smaller increases related to ammunition, uniforms, inmate extradition and other items.
In-jail medical and mental health services provided by VitalCore will cost $523,245 next year, according to the sheriff’s office. 2025 is the fourth year of a five-year contract with VitalCore. KCSO is expected to open a request for proposals for contracted medical services next week.
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