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Sheriff warns of rising jail medical costs and proposes food-service reductions to meet budget cuts
Summary
The sheriff described planned personnel-related budget cuts, a substantial unknown in jail medical-contract costs, and a proposed reduction in inmate food costs to meet requested operating cuts. County counsel flagged an outstanding hospital billing dispute that could raise county liabilities.
The sheriff presented the law-enforcement and detention budgets and identified two personnel-related cuts the office proposes: not filling two county-funded positions (projected base-salary savings about $104,000) and reducing the jail food/boarding line by $44,000 to approach minimum meal requirements.
The sheriff said the detention medical contract went out to bid and that bids are due in late July; he asked commissioners to budget conservatively…
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