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Lorain County commissioners amend appropriations after sheriff explains 2024 unpaid invoices; new chief deputy introduced
Summary
Commissioners removed two sheriff office items from an appropriations resolution after the newly elected sheriff told the board some purchases should be paid from restricted sheriff accounts and explained large unpaid 2024 invoices found in the office. The sheriff introduced Chief Deputy Tanya Zack.
The Lorain County Board of Commissioners on March 14 amended an appropriations motion to exclude two sheriff's office items after Sheriff’s Office leadership said the line items should be funded from restricted sheriff accounts rather than the county general fund.
Sheriff (unnamed) told commissioners that items 3 and 5 in the appropriations packet were meant to be paid from restricted funds the sheriff’s office maintains — including the furtherance-of-justice fund and law-enforcement trust funds — and said his office had no objection to removing those items from the general-fund appropriations. The sheriff also reported finding outstanding invoices dating to February 2024 that had not been encumbered by the prior administration and that the unpaid bills had shifted more than a quarter-million dollars…
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