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Committee approves jail phone-contract amendment to fund contracted IT position
Summary
Officials described an amended jail phone contract that will provide funding for a contracted IT position assigned to the jail; the committee approved the contract arrangement and members clarified the role would not be a county employee but funded under the contract for the next two years.
The Wilson County Law Enforcement Committee approved an amendment to the jail’s inmate phone contract that, according to the chief (Speaker 2), will fund a contracted information-technology position dedicated to the jail.
The chief said the phone provider agreed to fund an IT person to manage jail technology because existing county IT staff were stretched thin. He said the arrangement is "not a county employee" position; the vendor will provide funding and the county will hire the person. In the transcript the chief states the funding level as "$65,000 each year" for two years but an earlier sentence contains a garbled larger figure ("It's $6,065,000"), which the committee did not clarify on the record. The committee discussed that the position funding will be included in the contract for the next two years and will be considered in future contract renewals.
A motion to accept the contract arrangement was seconded and approved by voice vote ('Aye'). Committee members noted that the position and funding come from the contract proceeds and stressed that the post is intended to relieve existing county IT workloads in the jail.
Because the transcript contains an inconsistent figure, the article reports the committee's clearest statement: the funding was described in the meeting as approximately $65,000 per year for the position, and the contract term was described as two additional years.
