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Commissioners direct work on standard county template for city policing contracts
Summary
Kootenai County commissioners agreed Sept. 9 to pursue a single county contract template for law-enforcement services to cities and to have the sheriff’s office and auditor produce measurable service-level and cost data for negotiations, with a planned meeting involving Hayden city officials.
Kootenai County commissioners on Sept. 9 moved to standardize county contracts for law-enforcement services to cities and directed staff to produce comparable service and cost data for use in negotiations.
Commissioners said the county should stop negotiating different contract forms city-by-city and instead use a single county template with a city-specific addendum that sets the price and the level of service. County counsel circulated a draft template to the board prior to the meeting and described it as modeled on standard terms used by other Idaho counties.
The board and sheriff’s…
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