Undersheriff takes aim at Overtime
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About “109 inmates,” those who should have been sent to state prison, but due to lack of space are housed in county jails. There are about 100 in the county, Williams said, and it costs $44,000 per year per 109 inmate to house. He said they are paid about a third of the “actual cost of impact” from the state.
During the first few weeks’ staff meeting, Williams recalled, staff could not account for how much overtime had been taken. “There was no answer. We didn’t know,”...
In the past two years, that has changed. “We pay attention,” he said. There is a new overtime system that tracks overtime for every week. At the first meeting after they instituted the change, there were 1,000 hours of overtime worked in just that past week. “At $50 to $75 an hour, you do the math,” Williams said. “It’s a huge amount of money.”...
Patrol and dispatch shifts were changed to save money, “for the advantage of the department, not the employee,” Williams said. Since then, the department is “doing well.” Employees are now “held accountable for overtime” ...
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