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Bradley County Sheriff records tens of thousands in special-detail reimbursements, recommends budget amendments
Summary
County packet shows recurring sheriff’s-office budget amendments and dozens of event invoices totaling hundreds of thousands across pay periods; one batch totals $56,602.51, while two consolidated reimbursements exceed $23,919 and $26,864.78 respectively, much of it allocated to overtime.
County financial documents and invoices included in the June work-session packet show the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office receiving and accounting for recurring special-detail reimbursements and grant payments.
The materials list itemized payroll, overtime and benefits for deputies assigned to outside-security details at schools, churches and community events. Single reimbursement packets in the packet show totals of $56,602.51 (SEG 015), $23,919.00 (SEG 043) and $26,864.78 (SEG 052). The larger batches allocate the majority of funds to overtime (for example, $18,789.46 of the $26,864.78 batch), with additional line items for Social Security, retirement, insurance and vehicle maintenance.
Separately, the sheriff’s office submitted a $30,000 internal amendment to ensure sufficient funds for fleet vehicle maintenance and a $6,000 state retention grant listed as revenue to be applied to deputy salaries.
Documents attached to entries include detailed line-by-line payroll breakouts — names of deputies, dates worked, hours, overtime multipliers and benefit allocations — and invoices from event organizers requesting reimbursement. The packet repeatedly identifies the requesting agency as the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office and shows the Finance Committee recommendation fields on amendment forms; those recommendation fields are present but not uniformly marked as approved or denied in the scanned forms.
The county’s materials do not record any new policy change in how outside-detail assignments are priced or allocated; they function as bookkeeping for reimbursement and budget amendments to move revenue into overtime and benefits accounts. Several line-item documents show vehicle maintenance and gasoline allocations tied to the reimbursements.
Because these items are recorded as reimbursements, the documents indicate the sheriff’s office is not charging the county’s general fund for those particular costs beyond the reallocation of the reimbursed amounts. Funding sources for some line items are shown as ‘‘service charges’’ and event reimbursements rather than recurring county appropriations.
The work-session packet shows many such reimbursements over several pages; county officials review them as part of routine fiscal oversight, and the Finance Committee is noted on the amendment forms as the recommending body.
