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Council moves to align sheriff’s off‑duty mileage reimbursement with state rate
Summary
The council voted to amend the sheriff fleet maintenance ordinance to set the county mileage reimbursement to the state rate (discussion favored using the highest state rate) and discussed granting the sheriff limited discretion to adjust the rate; the motion passed as recorded in the minutes.
Sheriff (speaker 5) asked the council to revise Ordinance 2024‑01 to raise the department’s vehicle‑mileage reimbursement from $0.35 per mile to match the state reimbursement rate for off‑duty law enforcement services and to permit the sheriff to adjust the county rate up or down by $0.05 without returning to the council.
Council members questioned whether to tie the county rate to whatever the governor sets or to adopt the highest state rate; an amendment was proposed to set the county rate at the highest state rate rather than a fixed cent amount. Discussion noted that the state’s published reimbursement and the county’s internal rate have differed (members referenced 49¢ and higher state figures in the discussion). One council member cautioned that mileage reimbursement is intended to reflect fuel and vehicle costs rather than serve as a per‑diem.
After debate, the council adopted the amended motion to align the county rate with the state rate (members also discussed limiting the sheriff’s discretionary adjustment). The transcript records affirmative votes and the measure was recorded as approved; the recorded numeric tallies in the transcript are not consistently notated.
