Proposed government positions for 2007 up by 12
NORWICH – The number of new government positions that could be created next year - up to 10 are recommended thus far - could increase by two based on action taken at Wednesday’s Chenango County Safety & Rules Committee meeting.
Sheriff Thomas J. Loughren requested and received permission to tentatively budget a new full-time communications dispatcher plus a full-time maintenance worker at the new Public Safety Facility on Upper Ravine Road in the Town of Norwich. Loughren said both positions are required to meet the current workload.
A new dispatcher position at $35,000 with benefits would be paid for using 911 surcharges, the Sheriff said. The undetermined salary and benefits for a cleaner would come from revenue generated by farming in prisoners from out-of-county jails.
The nine dispatchers currently on the job leave a time slot uncovered during the third shift. “We’ve been playing Russian Roulette,” the Sheriff said. “(Fire Coordinator and Emergency Management Director) Matt Beckwith has been filling in, but he doesn’t have the time to do that anymore.”
“Have the number of calls increased?” Supervisor Homer Smith, D-McDonough, asked.
Loughren said the workload has increased, but based on the 900 square miles covered in the county, New York State Department of Corrections require two dispatchers on at all times. Dispatchers take after-hours and weekend calls for the county’s fire, police and highway departments.
The Sheriff said one part-time cleaner at the new 180,000 square foot complex isn’t enough. It is “unrealistic,” he added, to continue asking corrections officers, road patrol and sheriff’s deputies to clean the kitchen, offices, lobby and conference rooms. Inmates currently clean their own pods.
Committee Chairman Alton Doyle asked Loughren to research the cost of hiring a cleaning service.
“We’ve toyed with this for over a year,” the Sheriff said. “I usually suffer along, but this is not doable. I need someone to clean.”
Loughren said the revenues from farming in prisoners will be more than ample to cover the cost of a janitor. “It’s a huge revenue stream,” he said, one that “far outweighs the cost of farming in.”
“There’s no question you need a cleaner,” Supervisor Jack T. Cook, R-Greene, said. The committee agreed unanimously to include the position in the Corrections Department budget for next year.
In other news, the Sheriff was authorized to utilize $40,000 from the 1 percent dedicated sales tax to budget utilities costs at the facility in 2007. Citing a referral from the county’s Finance Committee last week, Doyle requested that Loughren meet with Area Agency on Aging Director Debra Sanderson to determine what the two departments should each allot toward kitchen operations/utilities costs next year.
Sheriff Thomas J. Loughren requested and received permission to tentatively budget a new full-time communications dispatcher plus a full-time maintenance worker at the new Public Safety Facility on Upper Ravine Road in the Town of Norwich. Loughren said both positions are required to meet the current workload.
A new dispatcher position at $35,000 with benefits would be paid for using 911 surcharges, the Sheriff said. The undetermined salary and benefits for a cleaner would come from revenue generated by farming in prisoners from out-of-county jails.
The nine dispatchers currently on the job leave a time slot uncovered during the third shift. “We’ve been playing Russian Roulette,” the Sheriff said. “(Fire Coordinator and Emergency Management Director) Matt Beckwith has been filling in, but he doesn’t have the time to do that anymore.”
“Have the number of calls increased?” Supervisor Homer Smith, D-McDonough, asked.
Loughren said the workload has increased, but based on the 900 square miles covered in the county, New York State Department of Corrections require two dispatchers on at all times. Dispatchers take after-hours and weekend calls for the county’s fire, police and highway departments.
The Sheriff said one part-time cleaner at the new 180,000 square foot complex isn’t enough. It is “unrealistic,” he added, to continue asking corrections officers, road patrol and sheriff’s deputies to clean the kitchen, offices, lobby and conference rooms. Inmates currently clean their own pods.
Committee Chairman Alton Doyle asked Loughren to research the cost of hiring a cleaning service.
“We’ve toyed with this for over a year,” the Sheriff said. “I usually suffer along, but this is not doable. I need someone to clean.”
Loughren said the revenues from farming in prisoners will be more than ample to cover the cost of a janitor. “It’s a huge revenue stream,” he said, one that “far outweighs the cost of farming in.”
“There’s no question you need a cleaner,” Supervisor Jack T. Cook, R-Greene, said. The committee agreed unanimously to include the position in the Corrections Department budget for next year.
In other news, the Sheriff was authorized to utilize $40,000 from the 1 percent dedicated sales tax to budget utilities costs at the facility in 2007. Citing a referral from the county’s Finance Committee last week, Doyle requested that Loughren meet with Area Agency on Aging Director Debra Sanderson to determine what the two departments should each allot toward kitchen operations/utilities costs next year.
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