Board of Supervisors County of Inyo P 0. Drawer N • Independence. California 93526 Tfl.EPIIONF (760) 878-0373*

"Inyo County Sheriff Deputies work for $11,160.00 to $22,032.00 per year less than the officers and deputies in the neighboring law enforcement departments of Bishop, Mono County and Mammoth Lakes." COUNTY RESPONSE: Disagree partially. This analysis takes into account only base pay and does not consider the total compensation package offered by Inyo County, which includes a variety of specialty pays, varied insurance benefits, and substantially different retirement and retirement benefits those of Bishop, Mono County and Mammoth Lakes.

"Inyo spends an average of $133,729.25 per recruit to train a new deputy sheriff." COUNTY RESPONSE: Disagree wholly. We are unable to replicate this figure through our own calculations, which reveals a typical training cost of $86,827.

"In the last 3 1/2 years, 6 Inyo deputy sheriffs have left Inyo to work for the 3 neighboring law enforcement departments. COUNTY RESPONSE: Disagree partially. Not understanding how this figure was arrived at, we can agree that 7 lnyo deputy sheriffs have left lnyo County to work for the 3 neighboring law enforcement departments since 2015. We also note that during this same period, 5 experienced lateral hires from other agencies occurred.

"Salary was the primary or at least a major factor in the decision of each and all of the 6 deputies to leave Inyo to go to the other departments." COUNTY RESPONSE: Unable to agree or disagree. The Board of Supervisors did not speak with any of the deputies in question and therefor can neither confirm nor deny their reasons for departure.

"Experience of law enforcement officers is valuable to the officers and the citizens they serve, Inyo is losing experienced deputies to neighboring departments." COUNTY RESPONSE: Agree.

"By our preliminary computations, raising the salaries of all 20 patrol deputies by $1,038.00 per month would cost less than half of what is now being spent in an average year for training new recruits." COUNTY RESPONSE: Disagree wholly. As discussed in the response to Finding 2, the costs referenced by the Grand Jury to train new deputies are higher than what we Inyo County Board of Supervisors Response to 18-19 First Interim Grand Jury Report 2 have calculated, and the identified salary increase does not take into account other substantial costs associated with such an increase such as specialty pays, retirement, retiree health benefits and unfunded liability payments.

"Pro rata reimbursement contracts would be legally valid if signed by recruits before they accept expensive training at the expense of the Inyo County Sheriff's Department." COUNTY RESPONSE: Agree.