Emergency officials take budget hits

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August 28, 2019 - 10:32 AM

Despite red flags raised by Sheriff Bryan Murphy, Allen County commissioners passed a 2020 budget Tuesday.

Murphy’s biggest concern is that the jail has 17 employees for whom commissioners have ordered Murphy give 3% cost of living raises. That’s a tall order when his budget was increased by less than 1%.

Commissioners raised the sheriff’s department budget by $1,192 to $1,246,315.

“I just don’t see how we are supposed to make it,” Murphy said.

Murphy said that since he has been in charge, the jail has been profitable by housing out-of-county inmates. In the last four years, Murphy said the jail has brought in $1.4 million in revenue. That money is applied to the jail lease payment.

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