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Elkhart County councilors weigh shifting corrections salaries into jail fund
Summary
County officials debated using the criminal-justice "cadet" fund to cover corrections salaries and other jail-related operations, asked legal staff to verify statutory limits and recommended leaving a cushion for bond payments and initial January appropriations.
Elkhart County officials discussed transferring certain corrections salaries and other jail-related operating expenses into the county's criminal-justice quarter-percent fund during a budget work session, but said they would seek legal review and preserve a short-term cushion to avoid cash shortfalls.
County Attorney Steve Olson said the 2002 state legislation that created the quarter-percent criminal-justice county adjusted income tax (referred to in the meeting as the "cadet") and a subsequent county ordinance and 2013 amendment broadened the fund's allowable uses. "With that description in our 2013 amendment, we have broader authority to incorporate some employee expenses," Olson said, and he recommended reviewing the statute and county documents before…
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