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amount requested for police supplies, and cut completely the $10,000 supplemental payment requested for the dispatchers. The rest of his budget was approved as presented.
Sheriff Woodward also pointed out that he is losing deputies each year to higher paying jobs with other counties and to the State Police. He told the board that, unless salaries and benefits are made competitive with those departments, the drain of experienced deputies will continue.
""You lost a couple of good people,” Mr. Lane agreed. “I was sorry to see them leave the county.”
Mr. McCarthy told the sheriff that the county had made a policy decision to increase the percentage of each employee’s health insurance paid by the county from 50 to 75 percent.
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