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portion of the mileage fund claims are to be paid out of the county’s general fund,” maintained Davis.
“I hate to see it come to the point where the State Police and the Sheriff’s Department are not cooperating,” commented Supervisor Latham.
Davis explained that his objections were not concerned with cooperation but with “overlapping” responsibilities. He advised that the Supervisors pass a resolution for the “welfare and benefit of the public,” acknowledging that if the State wc.»t pay, then the county will “pick up the ticket.”
IN VIEW of Davis’s objections to the current patrolling practices, Latham asked him for an explanation of the differences between the mileage figures from Buntin’s department and those of his predecessor, Sheriff John Walker Jenkins.
According to figures from previously submitted and approved mileage reports, Jenkins’s department, with three and a half deputies, logged 15,000 miles more than Buntin’s, with five deputies and an increased work load.
Supervisor Butch Eastham agreed with Latham’s request. “Why wasn’t this brought up before?” added Eastham.
Davis claimed that it had been. Just because the patrolling procedures had been “improperly permitted in the past doesn’t mean you continue doing it, ” he commented.
Supervisor H. B. Wood asked that the arguing stop. He thought that the Supervisors would have an answer from the Compensation
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