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| Sheriff asks for funds to save patrol |
| By Jeff Green |
| Published: 04/17/2009 |
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ELYRIA — The Lorain County Sheriff's Office has applied for $3.7 million in federal stimulus money that would hire 12 deputies who were laid off last December and four additional deputies during the next three years. Capt. James Drozdowski said the department submitted its grant to the U.S. Department of Justice last Friday for money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He said they will know whether or not the sheriff's office receives any funding from the stimulus Community Oriented Policing Services program as early as the next two months or as late as September. Sheriff Phil Stammitti said he is hopeful the grant will be funded. "We hope they look at the departments who had people laid off," Stammitti said. "We were down before too, and I've always said that, but now we're down more." Drozdowski said the department will contact Ohio's senators and local Congressional representatives to generate support for the grant. Commissioner Betty Blair offered to write a letter of support as well. Stammitti's budget took a $1.2 million cut this year, which led to the layoffs of 12 full-time deputies, eight part-time staff and two typists. Five of the 12 laid-off deputies have returned to work. Three of them were hired as corrections officers and two were rehired this month after the county commissioners approved $192,288 in Solid Waste Management District funds for a pair of litter and illegal dumping enforcement deputies. Drozdowski said if the stimulus grant is funded in full, all 12 officers would be paid through it, allowing the department to fill the corrections officer positions with new hires. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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