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Commissioner Scurlock didn't feel there were any simplistic solutions to the budget review process, but agreed that it is a difficult task to look at all our departments and try to come up with what the community needs and can afford. He believed the minimum,increase the Sheriff should have this year is 180. Commissioner Bird noted that population growth affects all departments of the county, but even with the cutbacks, the Sheriff's Dept. has received a higher rate of increase than the others. Sheriff Dobeck didn't agree that population growth impacts the county departments equally. Commissioner Bird, in order to be fair, wanted to reserve comment until he sees the rest of the county budgets. Commissioner Scurlock noted that this is just a workshop meeting today where we can get some idea of what the Sheriff needs. Commissioner Eggert suggested that the Sheriff come up with a 5 -year long-range plan and present it to a workshop, and the Sheriff thought it would be helpful to see what the Commission's idea of increased growth, what funding they think would be available, and if there are other sources of funding out there for some of these areas. Commissioner Bird just suggested that we leave the door open to the Sheriff for a future workshop on long-range goals and budget needs, and just have the Commission more involved and more knowledgeable with the situation over there. The Sheriff repeated his invitation to the Commissioners to come over and ask any questions they might have so that he might provide that information to them. However, he expected the Commissioners to have more questions of his operation than he would have of theirs. Chairman Wheeler stated that he could support some sort of formula, and maybe have some kind of panel to work with the 3 �� BOOK E 258 'JUL 6 1989