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| New Sheriff Improves Jail Spending |
| By tulsaworld.com |
| Published: 09/20/2010 |
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Since it took over the operation of the Tulsa Jail on July 1, 2005, the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office has consistently spent less than it was appropriated despite rising inmate counts, soaring increases in the cost of employee benefits and often modest increases in sales tax collections, records indicate. The Sheriff's Office also has been able to make good on one important promise made by Undersheriff Brian Edwards in March 2005 when he presented the sheriff's bid to operate the jail to the Tulsa County Criminal Justice Authority - that the sheriff would bring in millions of dollars through grants and new contracts to house inmates. Edwards said last week, "I think it's been a collaborative effort by everyone involved to make sure we operated the jail within the revenue stream that's available and try to save as much money wherever and whenever we can, and I think we have done that." Read More. Balancing the jail's books has never been simple because of the many variables in the equation. Inmate counts change daily. Sales tax collections, which provide most of the funding for the jail, change monthly. And the cost of salaries and benefits more often than not increases from year to year. Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=16&articleid=20100920_16_A1_CUTLIN9494&allcom=1 |
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