Sheriff asks to fill chief dispatcher position
NORWICH – Chenango County Sheriff Ernest Cutting did what was anticipated: He asked lawmakers to refill the chief dispatcher position that was left vacant with passage of the 2011 county budget.
The county’s safety and rules committee last week referred the matter of funding the position onto the committee in charge of finance, which meets for the first time this year on Feb. 3.
Lawmakers debated whether the position should have been included within the 2011 budget in the first place. Chenango County Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard B. Decker caused the vacancy when he appointed former chief dispatcher Matthew Beckwith to head the fire and emergency services department.
Cutting suggested that approximately $112,000 in excess revenues taken in from boarding in prisoners last year could be used to fund the position, however he did not estimate a salary. The head dispatcher would oversee a staff of nine in the Chenango County Public Safety Facility’s 911 Emergency Communications Center. The highest paid full time dispatcher currently earns $33,144 plus 35 percent in fringe benefits.
The Sheriff also recommended creating a capital project account to afford the jail’s $6 million plus operating expenses using future revenues from boarding in out-of-county convicts and collections from the 1 percent sales tax instituted back in 2002 to afford the now four-year old facility.
In other public safety news, Cutting said an inmate from the Valley Ridge Center For Intensive Treatment, who violated his parole on three separate occasions last year, had required “extensive medical treatment” while incarcerated at the jail.
Broome Developmental Disabilities Services Office Deputy Director Ann Marie Peterson, who oversees Valley Ridge, said the criminal justice system takes over whenever a CIT prisoner, called a “consumer,” violates parole.
“We don’t have the ability to say where they go to jail. That’s the judge or the parole officer on the case,” she said.
In an effort to cut the department’s costs, Town of Norwich Supervisor David C. Law suggested creating an in-prison infirmary complete with dental services that would provide medical services. Cutting was forced to move around funds within in his budget last year to cover personnel overtime incurred from transporting prisoners to Chenango Memorial Hospital for treatment, as well as for medical expenses.
The county’s safety and rules committee last week referred the matter of funding the position onto the committee in charge of finance, which meets for the first time this year on Feb. 3.
Lawmakers debated whether the position should have been included within the 2011 budget in the first place. Chenango County Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard B. Decker caused the vacancy when he appointed former chief dispatcher Matthew Beckwith to head the fire and emergency services department.
Cutting suggested that approximately $112,000 in excess revenues taken in from boarding in prisoners last year could be used to fund the position, however he did not estimate a salary. The head dispatcher would oversee a staff of nine in the Chenango County Public Safety Facility’s 911 Emergency Communications Center. The highest paid full time dispatcher currently earns $33,144 plus 35 percent in fringe benefits.
The Sheriff also recommended creating a capital project account to afford the jail’s $6 million plus operating expenses using future revenues from boarding in out-of-county convicts and collections from the 1 percent sales tax instituted back in 2002 to afford the now four-year old facility.
In other public safety news, Cutting said an inmate from the Valley Ridge Center For Intensive Treatment, who violated his parole on three separate occasions last year, had required “extensive medical treatment” while incarcerated at the jail.
Broome Developmental Disabilities Services Office Deputy Director Ann Marie Peterson, who oversees Valley Ridge, said the criminal justice system takes over whenever a CIT prisoner, called a “consumer,” violates parole.
“We don’t have the ability to say where they go to jail. That’s the judge or the parole officer on the case,” she said.
In an effort to cut the department’s costs, Town of Norwich Supervisor David C. Law suggested creating an in-prison infirmary complete with dental services that would provide medical services. Cutting was forced to move around funds within in his budget last year to cover personnel overtime incurred from transporting prisoners to Chenango Memorial Hospital for treatment, as well as for medical expenses.
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