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Council directs staff to develop town-owned mounted-unit program with sponsorship model
Summary
After presentations from police leadership, the Jackson Town Council directed staff to draft policies and a program to transition to town-owned mounted patrol horses funded primarily through sponsorships and Friends of the Mounted Unit support, while asking staff for detailed cost estimates and safeguards for sponsor selection.
The Jackson Town Council directed staff to develop a program and related policies to revise the sworn mounted patrol unit to include acquisition, housing, care and operational use of town-owned horses, with the intent of preserving the mounted program without adding ongoing town budget obligations.
Chief Weber told the council the mounted unit faces a structural challenge: the department currently has only two sworn mounted officers — he and a lieutenant — and both are eligible for retirement. "Without sworn officers to provide oversight,…
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