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Committee reviews sheriff’s staffing, recruitment spending and overtime accounting
Summary
Committee members and sheriff’s office representatives discussed jail staffing levels, recruitment efforts including a proposed $30,000 training/advertising match, use of billboards via Lamar, and a discrepancy between budgeted and available overtime funds in the LIT account.
Vanderburgh County’s Personnel Finance Committee spent part of its meeting examining staffing and recruitment for the sheriff’s office, recruitment and training proposals, and a discrepancy in overtime budgeting for the jail.
Mister Sugarman, answering for the sheriff’s office, reported staffing and hiring details for the jail and deputies. He said the jail had 15 open positions and that the department had sent two hires to merit deputy positions; the department had eight conditional offers outstanding for open jail positions. Sugarman said he anticipated several upcoming retirements among deputies. The committee praised recent progress in reducing vacancy counts from earlier years.
The sheriff’s office requested a $30,000 allocation…
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