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Resident urges Franklin County to use $10.6M surplus for $900,000 jail guard raises; commissioner says scheduling is to blame for shortages
Summary
At the Board of Commissioners’ year-end meeting, resident Valerie Jordan urged use of a projected $10.6 million surplus to fund $900,000 in jail guard pay raises; a commissioner responded that the jail’s staffing shortfall is a scheduling problem, not one of pay.
Valerie Jordan of Fayetteville told Franklin County commissioners at their year-end meeting that the county has earned about $7 million in interest since 2022 and faces a projected $10.6 million year-end surplus, and she asked why $900,000 requested by the prison guards’ union could not be taken from that surplus to fund raises.
“We earned $7,000,000 in interest,” Jordan said during the public-comment period, adding that the surplus represented roughly 7% of the county’s $154,200,000 budget. “Surplus is meant to be spent.”
Jordan also cited…
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