HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-2025 Sheriff’s Office Overtime Usage Report, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.) a) Receive and file a report on Sheriff’s Office overtime usage from FY 2024-2025; b) Request the Sheriff’s Office to continue to explore and implement additional controls to manage and reduce overtime use and exercise appropriate management controls; c) Direct further review and/or audit of issues noted in the report by the Auditor-Controller's Office, as well as other findings as determined by the Auditor-Controller, as appropriate; d) Direct the Human Resources Director to explore available options to increase accountability and control over overtime and compensatory time use and costs through upcoming labor negotiations with the Deputy Sheriffs’ Association (DSA) and Sheriff’s Managers Association (SMA); e) Provide other direction, as appropriate; and f) Determine that the above actions are not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), because pursuant to sections 15378(b)(4) and 15378(b)(5) the recommended actions consist of organizational, administrative, or fiscal activities of government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY

Committee

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Introduced

February 2, 2026

On agenda

February 10, 2026

Passed

February 10, 2026

Where it was heard

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Feb 10, 2026 Acted on as follows: Pass

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