Commissioners question $140,000 transfer‑in request for emergency management and 911; consider using jail fund reserves
A director requested a $140,000 transfer‑in for emergency management/911; commissioners discussed lowering it to $80,000–$100,000, and whether some of the previously used funds for the public safety complex should come from sheriff's jail fund reserves instead.
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The board reviewed a director's request to transfer $140,000 into the emergency management and 911 budgets next year. The clerk noted the minimum per grant requirements is about $68,841; commissioners worried that setting the transfer too high would 'pigeonhole' future budgets and examined whether the sheriff's jail fund could cover some of the prior expenditures tied to the new public safety complex.
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