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Commissioners leave detention‑officer reductions largely in place; debate over staff counts and savings continues
Summary
The board left eight reduction positions in the detention center budget in the proposed plan, after lengthy discussion about whether the planned new jail would allow deeper staffing cuts and whether the sheriff had agreed to the previously proposed reductions.
The Wayne County Board of Commissioners reviewed competing estimates of required detention‑center staffing for a planned new jail and decided during the budget work session to keep eight positions in the proposed budget that had been previously returned to the sheriff by board action.
Commissioners and staff recounted a longer planning history in which architects and staff had presented a model that would allow the county to reduce detention staffing by up to 16 positions in a single‑level new facility; the sheriff told the board he had not agreed to the full…
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