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Correctional facility closure impacts city, county budgets
By lagrangenews.com- Alicia B. Hill
Published: 05/24/2017

LaGRANGE – The financial impact of losing the workforce provided by the correctional institute was evident Tuesday in both the Troup County budget hearing and the City of LaGrange budget work session.

The county announced the closure of the correctional institute and work release programs earlier this month in light of insufficient state funding for the correctional institute. The closure created a savings of $1.5 million that will be used employee raises, but both the county and its three cities are still coming to terms with what that loss will mean for their budgets long term.

“We’ve still got some loose ends (in the budget) because we’re not sure exactly what is going to happen with the cities, but it is costing us a bit more for (work) details then we expected in order to replace the details (from the work release program),” County Financial Officer Buddy Cashwell said. “We have a contingency set aside to cover that.”

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