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Oak Grove council presses sheriff's lieutenant on $1.04 million contract as May calls rise
Summary
At the June 9 Oak Grove City Council meeting, the sheriff's lieutenant reviewed May public-safety statistics and council members pressed staff for detail about a proposed 2026 contract that the city says would cost about $1,038,149 for one deputy 24/7 service.
On June 9, the Oak Grove City Council received the sheriff's monthly activity report and spent more than an hour questioning the proposed 2026 contract price for 24-hour deputy coverage, which staff said would total about $1,038,149.
"For the month of May, we had 252 calls for service," Lieutenant Andy of the county sheriff's office told the council as he summarized the department's statistics and recent incidents. He gave a breakdown that included 225 traffic stops, 29 medical calls, 26 animal complaints and arrests that month including three felony arrests, six gross-misdemeanor arrests and three DUI arrests.
Council members pressed for clarity on both the statistics and contract line items. Council Member West asked whether the spike in traffic stops reflected a change in how the sheriff's office counts them: "...it looks like we went up, like, about 400,…
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