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Supervisors discuss sheriff contract-rate increases for cities as department defends built-in countywide services
Summary
Board members probed proposed rate increases for contract cities, noting the county provides air support, SWAT and other mutual-aid services to all municipalities; sheriff's representatives said such countywide offerings are not built into contract rates but the contract rate covers staff, facility and service-level costs; item 3.51 passed unanimously.
Supervisors pressed the Sheriff Department and staff about proposed contract-rate increases for cities that use county sheriff services, while the department defended the methodology used to build the rates.
Supervisor Jeffreys said media reports indicated the proposed contract-city increases totaled about $5.5 million across jurisdictions and asked whether the county provides some services to all cities for free — for example aviation,…
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