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derstand two more are leaving,” the sheriff said.
The sheriffs department cannot contract independently for ' health and hospitalization insurance. “The only way that Blue Cross-Blue Shield or anybody else will give us insurance is if the county pays half,” he told the supervisors.
Chairman Hubert Gilkey noted that health insurance benefits are not provided for county employees, except teachers.
Under legislation passed by Virginia’s General Assembly, if insurance is furnished to any county employees, it must be provided for the. sheriffs department, according to Sheriff Woodward. He acknowledged, however, that opinion is divided as to whether teachers are classified as county employees.
In response to questions on portions of his department’s budget funded by the state, Sheriff Woodward noted that a $25,000 increase proposed for part-time personnel re-' suits from the restriction to a 40hour work week unless overtime is paid.
“I’ve asked for two additional people in the jail. If they’re approved (by the State Compensation Board), the part-time money will drop,” he explained. And conversely, if the additional positions are denied, the appropriation for the jail will decrease, the sheriff said.
As for salary increases, he reported that the state has awarded 4.57 percent pay hikes for deputies and 11 percent for sheriffs. Virginia’s sheriffs did not get a pay increase last year, and because state law specifies that the top deputy can be paid only 90 percent of a sheriffs salary, that salary had to be pushed up by a bigger percentage to maintain the difference, according to Sheriff Woodward.
He informed the supervisors that the Department of Corrections recently completed a study of Rappahannock’s provisions for feeding prisoners. Currently, the county contracts with the Hampton Inn to supply meals at a cost of $20,000 per year. State correction officials “want to see a kitchen . . . The state says we should be able (to feed prisoners) for $10,000 in our own kitchen,” Sheriff Woodward said.
The state would split remodeling costs with the county, he reported. Then of the $20,000 the county gets
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