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M M M load. Finance Director Fry confirmed that they are not running that payroll now. The Administrator did not feel this would entail that much expense. Commissioner Wodtke noted that he has read in the news- papers that the proposed transition of the jail operation will release funds for the Sheriff to use somewhere else and release employees. What he envisions, however, is that we would take the last year's cost of the jail operations and transfer it over to the County, and there would be no bonanza for the Sheriff as far as additional employees or release of those funds to use in any other area. Some articles have indicated that the people from Corrections would be transferred over to Law Enforcement. The Administrator did believe it was recommended that one or two be transferred back to law enforcement, but he emphasized that the Sheriff does recognize that this is not a revenue generator - it is just a transfer of expense. Commissioner Wodtke continued that the paper has quoted the Sheriff as stating that it will cost more money to operate the jail, i.e., $40-50,000, and what he hears in the community is that they don't want to spend more money. Commissioner Lyons reported that his statement to the press explained that we are looking at two different things. The transferring of the jail operation out of the Sheriff's budget into ours has nothing to do with the Sheriff looking for more people for road patrol. If he is, that is an entirely different issue and one which will be settled when we look at his next fiscal budget. Commissioner Lyons further noted that it obviously will cost more each year to operate the jail because of the changing requirements of the Department of Corrections, but that has nothing to do with the transfer either as the Sheriff would have to meet the same requirements. 5 JUL 101984 BOOK 57 PACE575