Hazel's contract with S.O. is on hold
By TOM BERRY
Staff Writer
HAZEL, Ky. - A continuing lack of manpower at the Calloway County Sheriff's Department will put a proposed law enforcement contract with the Hazel City Commission on hold until at least 2008.
Hazel Mayor Kerry Vasseur and city commissioners Lori Charlton, Nancy Mieure and Pat Latimer tabled a three-page proposal during a meeting at Hazel City Hall Monday night after Sheriff Bill Marcum said the department would be unable to fulfill the terms of the contract as written without requiring deputies to work a significant number of overtime hours.
Marcum told the commission that new deputies required to fulfill the contract will soon have to spend about six months or more in training at the state law enforcement academy at Eastern Kentucky University and would not be available until January 2008.
“Some of the hours would be regular time, but when it gets into overtime we just can't afford it,” Marcum said.
According to the proposal, the City of Hazel would pay the department $2,345 per quarter - or $9,380 annually - for 60 hours of law enforcement protection per month in addition to that provided by the department to all areas of the county. The department will continue standard duties including regularly-scheduled patrols, emergency and on-call response, investigations, summons delivery and issuing citations as usual, but not at the requested heightened level.
However a possible three-month summer contract between the two parties is in the works with adoption of the full contract possible when more academy-trained deputies are available.
For complete story, see today's Ledger & Times
Story created May 08, 2007 - 11:58:47 EDT.
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