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Commissioners approve using PILT to start sheriff’s new CAD and records system; initial and recurring costs outlined
Summary
Lincoln County commissioners voted to fund the sheriff’s new CAD and records-management system’s initial payment from PILT funds, citing startup costs (installation $37,115 and a first-year subscription of $34,151) and an expectation that the sheriff’s office will seek to repay or accommodate ongoing costs in future budgets.
The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners voted to pay the initial payment to implement a new sheriff’s computer-aided dispatch (CAD) and records-management system and to code the payment to the county’s PILT account.
Presenters said the initial installation cost would be $37,115 to cover contract execution, kickoff and training; the annual subscription was listed at $34,151 and would be due on software delivery and setup completion. Presenters discussed a normal kickoff timeline of about a year. Commissioners explored funding options — including PILT, grant sources such as Stone Garden, and partial user payments — and acknowledged that the county did not budget for the purchase in the current 911 budget.
A commissioner moved that the county pay the initial amount from PILT with an acknowledgement the sheriff's office would look in its budget for sources to repay the initial outlay; the motion was seconded and carried after a voice vote in which one commissioner recorded opposition. The chair instructed staff to code the payment to the PILT account when filing the claim.
Because the transcript contains an ambiguous total figure for the combined first-year cost (the speaker read a concatenated value as "71,13051"), this article lists the two component figures above and their arithmetic sum: $37,115 (installation) + $34,151 (annual subscription) = $71,266 for the first year. The transcript’s readback of the total does not match that sum; the component line items were stated clearly.
