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JUL 2 3 1986 BOOK 65 pm'JE 212 Sheriff Dobeck did not believe .that the State will not allow us to use money from the confiscated fund account to pay for the new building, but Attorney Vitunac felt it was time to ignore the State Attorney General's guidelines for these funds and do what is right; he wished to have the Commission's support in this matter if it comes to a court situation. Commissioner Bowman noted that the present Attorney General is going to be out of office very shortly. Sheriff Dobeck was not willing to fight the General Attorney. However, he felt that the funds could be used specifically for the startup of new programs, such as special combat teams, marine patrol, overtime for a major push on a particular drug problem in the county. Attorney Vitunac stated that the funds can be used to pay the cost incurred in connection with the storage and maintenance of confiscated goods, and felt that we could use these funds to go ahead and building the confiscated storage building and then defend our action in court if necessary. Sheriff Dobeck preferred to have the confiscated funds spend on some of the startup equipment for the 911 center, which would fall under the Attorney General's guidelines. 01 Mr. Block understood that although the 911 system has been authorized, he needed express authorization to deal with all those entities out there as he felt he was going to have some problems. Commissioner Bird hoped that we would not lose our flexibility by saying that the entire 911 system is going to be under the Sheriff. Commissioner Lyons reported that he had asked General Services Director Sonny Dean for a diagram of how everyone is dispatched in this county and felt it is as conglomerate a mess as anything one could visualize. He then asked Director Dean to come up with a proposed plan. 79