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St. Joseph County commissioners approve three council-sent ordinances, including funding for school attendance officers
Summary
At its Aug. 19 meeting the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners approved three ordinances forwarded by the County Council, including an appropriation for public school attendance officers under Indiana Code 20-33-2-31; commissioners described the school-officer funding as an unfunded state mandate.
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. — The St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners on Aug. 19 approved three ordinances sent to the board by the County Council, including an appropriation to pay salaries and expenses for public school attendance officers under Indiana Code 20-33-2-31.
The measures were approved after the commissioners considered each ordinance individually because one had a split vote at the County Council. Two of the ordinances were passed unanimously by the council; the third was approved by a 7-2 County Council vote, the board noted.
Ordinance 49-25 (referred to in the meeting as affecting the prosecutor’s high-tech crime unit) was presented first. With no questions from the…
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