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Fleming County approves $100,000 in program support for sheriff; court discusses staffing, payroll and dispatch
Summary
Fleming County Fiscal Court approved $100,000 in program support for the sheriff, accepted sheriff and jail reports, praised a dispatch staffing transition and agreed that requiring staff to use personal cell phones for payroll tracking was unacceptable.
Fleming County Fiscal Court voted unanimously on Oct. 8 to provide $100,000 in program support to the Fleming County Sheriff as requested. The court also accepted the sheriff’s September monthly report and the third-quarter report and approved the dispatch and jailers reports.
Sheriff Smith told the court the department is addressing staffing issues and plans an emergency-response trial run; he also commended the Dispatch Center’s transition to new staff. After discussion, the court agreed that requiring Fleming County Clerk and sheriff staff to use their personal cell phones for work-time tracking is unacceptable and must be changed.
The court’s funding approval was recorded without discussion of specific program line items at the meeting minutes. The dispatch and jailers reports were approved unanimously as presented. The court did not record public opposition to the sheriff funding or the staffing summaries during the session.
Next steps noted at the meeting include internal follow-up on payroll-processing options, scheduling the sheriff’s emergency-response trial run and normal administrative actions to apply the $100,000 in program support.
