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Committee discusses shifting restricted funds, inmate‑services revenue and fee cuts as partial offsets to a tax increase
Summary
Commissioners considered using inmate‑services revenue for a reentry specialist, applying opioid‑settlement funds for jail behavioral health staff, reducing a corporate/corridor preservation fee (estimated ~$3M), and reallocating capital to operations to lower proposed tax increases.
During Oct. 27 deliberations, commissioners and staff identified several funding alternatives to blunt the size of a property‑tax increase.
Scott Park explained that the inmate services fund — the profits from commissary sales and inmate phone charges — can be used, under current policy, to pay an inmate reentry specialist. That option would avoid tapping the general fund or opioid…
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