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Published on: 2/13/2004
Last Visited: 2/13/2004
- County Sheriff Terry Anderson was also in attendance at the meeting, receiving approval of the 2004 budget for the Sheriff's Department.Anderson also asked the court to allow the max total salary allotted for all deputies to be increased to $650,000.Anderson said many complaints were received regarding the amount of traffic citations that deputies have issued over the past few months."We're trying to not be hard on the public, but at the same time we want everyone to understand that we've had too many injury accidents and too many non-injury accidents, and we're trying to cut those out," said Anderson.The deputies are able to do this because of federal overtime, which is paid to deputies only if they work traffic.Anderson said the department has almost been incident driven in the past, so the federal overtime allows the deputies to crack down on traffic problems. - Representatives from St. Nicholas Clinic in Paducah also requested money from the court to help continue their service to citizens who do not have insurance to cover medical problems.A representative said there were 190 visits last year from citizens in Marshall County.They were also wondering why the Marshall County Hospital would not handle those citizens' blood work, and Miller said he will bring members of the hospital board before the court at the next meeting to find out why. - The court approved the payment of $15,000 to the clinic, and Miller said that he will see that it becomes a line item in each year's budget.