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Sheriff’s Office will fund school-safety purchases from drug-seizure funds; county approves opioid and ICMA grant applications
Summary
The board approved shifting drug-seizure fund lines to cover school-safety purchases and authorized county applications for the Georgia Opioid Crisis Abatement Trust and ICMA Economic Mobility grants; public commenters raised traffic and rezoning concerns.
The Whitfield County Board of Commissioners on June 9 approved budget-line increases enabling the Sheriff's Office to use drug-seizure funds to pay for school-safety equipment and related support, and the board authorized county agencies to apply for opioid-abatement and economic-mobility grants.
Minutes record the board approved increases to the Sheriff's Office drug-seizure fund lines: Capital (State) increased by $38,000; Small Equipment increased by $32,000; Operating Expense increased by $20,000; and Small Equipment (Federal) increased by $10,000. The minutes state the office intends "to eliminate the cost to taxpayers" by using this funding…
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