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Court moves jail maintenance pay to county maintenance budget; removes jail maintenance headcount
Summary
The commissioners voted to shift jail maintenance salary funding into the county maintenance budget and to remove an associated jail maintenance headcount from the jail’s funded positions (left unfunded in headcount), a pair of actions the court said are meant to align maintenance responsibilities while retaining operational flexibility.
Rockwall County commissioners voted Aug. 27 to shift the funding for jail maintenance positions from the jail’s budget into the county Maintenance & Operations budget and then voted to remove the maintenance headcount from the jail’s funded positions.
Commissioner Stacy made the motion to increase Maintenance & Operations by $55,365 to account for jail‑maintenance salaries and then to reduce the jail budget funding lines accordingly so that maintenance functions would be funded out of Barry’s maintenance department rather than the jail. The court passed that motion 5–0.
Later the court voted 4–1…
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