Looking at a minor cost of living adjustment and other small, improved appropriations, Trigg County Fiscal Court approved the Trigg County Sheriff’s Office 2026-27 annual budget Tuesday night — one that shows a modest 2.35% increase from last year.
Valued at $1,052,129, county sheriff’s budgets are partially governed by state statute, particularly when it comes to salaries.
Trigg County sheriff salary will be $114,203. Nine deputies will cost $407,386. Office staff will split $130,310. Deputy sheriff overtime has been set at $25,000. And $30,000 has been set aside for the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund.
Furthermore, Sheriff Aaron Acree said “K-9 Support” is being increased from $12,000 to $15,000, and “Uniforms” are being bumped up from $8,000 to $10,000.
Judicial Center Security, he added, will cost more than $129,000. His office’s most recent fee settlement came in north of $800,000.
In other fiscal court news:
+ Magistrates also approved for Judge-Executive Stan Humphries to sign articles of dissolution for the now-defunct Pennyrile Westpark Industrial Development Authority. The document has already been signed by Lyon County Judge-Executive Jaime Smith, and still needs ink from Caldwell, Crittenden and Livingston officials.
The articles note the authority no longer has assets “of whatever nature,” including personal, real and/or mixed, and there are no assets owned by the authority to be returned to the respective counties.
The Pennyrile WestPark Industrial Park was an 800-plus-acre industrial mega-site located in Lyon County, and at one time was considered a “prime site” for a single large industrial client that came with utilities ready for major business. It consisted of 500 acres owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky and 300-plus acres optioned by this authority.
Back in 2022, former Lake Barkley Economic Development Director Amanda Davenport said explorations of the site had “picked up,” and that in 2018, the entire plat was put in the FEMA flood plain map.
Tuesday night, Humphries said some new due diligence returned unfavorable development costs.
+ Magistrates approved, and thus allowed, Trigg County 911 Director Lori Jenkins to apply for the 2026-27 911 Services Board Grant, which if awarded would be valued at $55,867 on a 10% match. Jenkins said the $50,000 would go toward improving computer equipment in the office, as well as provide upgrades for CIS CAD technology used in dispatching and codifying calls.
