The Salt Lake County Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to give the district attorney’s office what it asked for: money to handle a crush of new felony cases stemming from Operation Rio Grande.
The vote will cost the county $313,000 for two new prosecutors and a legal assistant devoted to the crackdown on crime near the downtown homeless center, but it didn’t come easy.
As it did a week earlier, the Council on Tuesday aired concerns over District Attorney Sim Gill’s out-of-budget cycle request and questioned whether the jobs couldn’t wait, as there are open, unfilled jobs in his office.