FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) - The budget battle between the Broward County Sheriff and Broward County Commissioners is over.

On Tuesday, Commissioners agreed to dip into their reserves to pay $10.7 million in pay raises that all but two commissioners authorized for detention deputies and other BSO employees.

Sheriff AL Lamberti threatened to appeal his budget to the Florida Cabinet if commissioners tried to make him pay for the raises.

"At this point we will not be appealing our budget to the Florida Cabinet," Lamberti told reporters at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

But the Sheriff made clear, the decision by county commissioners to give employees that raise may have come with a steep price.

The sheriff has said for weeks he believes it was hypocritical for commissioners to order him to cut his budget, but find money for a last minute pay raise granted by the commissioners.

"I'm concerned with the hypocrisy of the decision," Lamberti said. "The hypocrisy of cut your budget by $60 million but increase it by $10.7."

Commissioners dipped into reserves to pay the raises -- reserves that Lamberti said BSO contributed $14 million towards.

"Where they found the money is in our surplus that we turned in to help balance next year's budget," Lamberti said.

Lamberti said there's no clear answer where the money for the raises will come from next year and he does anticipate legal action over the raises.

He said some of the raises are going to a handful of employees, about 600, in cities which pay BSO to provide law enforcement.

Sheriff Lamberti told CBS4 he's spoken to several leaders in those cities who are not happy those raises may now need to be funded in their city budgets.

"On one hand the County Commission has criticized this agency for allegedly using funds to subsidize law enforcement in contract cities," he said. "They just did the same thing themselves that they have accused us of."

Lamberti said he's proud that he and commissioners made tough decisions to cut their budgets this year. However, he believes a majority of Commissioners were wrong to agree to a last minute pay increase for thousands of BSO employees.

"They have to do what they think is right," he said. "I'm gonna do what I think is right. In this case, I think they made a mistake."