County commission meeting
Feb. 11
The Washington County Commission denied county Sheriff Gus Dicesari’s request for additional money for eight new police cruisers and five additional deputies, after a 5-2 vote during a county commission meeting Thursday afternoon. The vote came after a heated argument between Dicesari and Commission President Anne Chenn over the county’s budget constraints. Dicesari said, “You’re [Chenn] putting the lives of the people of this county in jeopardy.” Dicesari also went on to say, “It is getting too costly to maintain the older vehicles and they spend too much time in the repair shop.” Chenn told Dicesari the sheriff’s department would have to make due this year because the county did not have the additional $580,000 it would cost to purchase new vehicles and hire new deputies. Chenn also noted that the county ran short of money this year because of increased costs of health care for employees, fuel, and $30 million the county had to spend to build a new prison to alleviate crowding. Commissioners Anita Shenuski and Raymond Laybourne supported Dicesari, stating that the county should spend more money on the sheriff’s department and law enforcement than programs for migrant workers who come to the county to work. In response to the sheriff’s supporter’s claim, Commissioner Jose Gardez said that many of the migrant workers become permanent members of the community, open small businesses, and eventually earn citizenship. County commissioners estimate that there are around 5,000 migrant families now in the county working in agriculture, construction and service industry jobs.
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