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Riley County Clerk warns inmate medical overruns will force $300,000 transfer
Summary
County Clerk Rich Vargo told the Riley County Commission that inmate medical and off-site housing costs have pushed the corrections fund over budget, and the county will move roughly $300,000 from the general fund to cover statutorily obligated expenses.
Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo told commissioners on Nov. 10 that rising inmate medical and off-site housing costs have driven the corrections fund into a deficit that will require an immediate intra-fund transfer.
Vargo said staff will "definitely gonna have to transfer around $300,000 from general into the RCPD fund to cover expenditures that were statutorily obligated to pay." He added the county is already "$77,000 over in inmate medical," noting that the…
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