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drives a car that gets about 15 miles to the gallon. At $1.20 per gallon—the price of gas with the big underground tank just installed behind the jail—it comes to $2,880 a year.
That leaves the deputy about $3,240 to pay for high risk insurance premiums, at least two sets of tires per year, an oil change every three months, tune-ups twice a year and any repairs needed after driving the car up and down back country roads, often at high speeds.
Out of what’s left, if any, he can make the car payment on the new vehicle he had to buy in order to have an automobile that will stand up under heavy use.
Is it any wonder that our deputies leave in droves?
According to county accountant Wally Cox, after the first year, it will cost the county no more to operate its own cars than it does to pay mileage. There is the extra expense, not reimbursable from the state, of purchasing vehicles. But in 1980-81, for the first time, the state is paying all of the salary for sheriff’s department personnel instead of just two-thirds and will also pay a portion of operating costs. Why can’t this unexpected
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