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_ 74 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 67. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 Sheriffs 11,780 11,780 Partially Funded: Jail Medical, Treatment, and Classification and Records Positions 939 939 Commissioners of the Revenue 851 851 Treasurers 861 861 Directors of Finance 383 383 Commonwealth's Attorneys 1,379 1,3791,449 Clerks of the Circuit Court 1,158 1,158 1,275 TOTAL 17,351 17,351 17,538 2. The Compensation Board is authorized to provide funding for 581 temporary positions the first year and 581 temporary positions the second year. 3. The board is authorized to adjust the expenses and other allowances for such officers to maintain approved permanent and temporary manpower levels. 4. Paragraphs B 1 and B 2 of this Item shall not apply to the clerks of the circuit courts and their employees specified in § 17.1-288, Code of Virginia, or those under contract pursuant to § 17.1-290, Code of Virginia. C.1. Reimbursement by the Compensation Board for the use of vehicles purchased or leased with public funds used in the discharge of official duties shall be at a rate equal to that approved by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission for Central Garage Car Pool services. No vehicle purchased or leased with public funds on or after July 1, 2002, shall display lettering on the exterior of the vehicle that includes the name of the incumbent sheriff. 2. Reimbursement by the Compensation Board for the use of personal vehicles in the discharge of official duties shall be at a rate equal to that established in § 4-5.04 e 2. of this act. All such requests for reimbursement shall be accompanied by a certification that a publicly owned or leased vehicle was unavailable for use. D. The Compensation Board is directed to examine the current level of crowding of inmates in local jails among the several localities and to reallocate or reduce temporary positions among local jails as may be required, consistent with the provisions of this act. E. Any new positions established in Item 67 of this act shall be allocated by the Compensation Board upon request of the constitutional officers in accordance with staffing standards and ranking methodologies approved by the Compensation Board to fulfill the requirements of any court order occurring from proceedings under § 15.2-1636.8, Code of Virginia, in accordance with the provisions of Item 60 of this act. F. Any funds appropriated in this act for performance pay increases for designated deputies or employees of constitutional officers shall be allocated by the Compensation Board upon certification of the constitutional officer that the performance pay plan for that office meets the minimum standards for such plans as set by the Compensation Board. Nothing herein, and nothing in any performance pay plan set by the Compensation Board or adopted by a constitutional officer, shall change the status of employees or deputies of constitutional officers from employees at will or create a property or contractual right to employment. Such deputies and employees shall continue to be employees at will who serve at the pleasure of the constitutional officers. G. The Compensation Board shall apply the current fiscal stress factor, as determined by the Commission on Local Government, to any general fund amounts approved by the board for the purchase, lease or lease purchase of equipment for constitutional officers. In the case of equipment requests from regional jail superintendents and regional special prosecutors, the highest stress factor of a member jurisdiction will be used. H. The Compensation Board shall not approve or commit additional funds for the operational cost, including salaries, for any local or regional jail construction, renovation, or expansion project which was not approved for reimbursement by the State Board of Local and Regional Jails prior to January 1, 1996, unless: (1) the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security certifies that such additional funding results in an actual cost savings to the