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Fiscal court adopts resolution backing House Bill 557 seeking higher payments for county jail housing
Summary
A resident and local officials asked the court to endorse House Bill 557 to raise state payments for county jail inmates; the court moved and seconded a resolution supporting the bill and approved it with minor editorial additions.
Members of the public asked Clark County Fiscal Court to adopt a resolution supporting House Bill 557, which they said would increase the per‑diem the state pays counties for housing state inmates. "They're not treating the counties ... fair," a resident identified in the record as Mr. Dennis said in public comment, urging the court to support the bill and deliver the resolution prepared by the county association.
Dennis and another…
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