By Janelle Stecklein/ CNHI State Reporter Jul 21, 2021
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OKLAHOMA CITY â State lawmakers Wednesday began the long process of deciding how to spend nearly $1.87 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds aimed at helping Oklahoma recover from the pandemic.
In addition, Oklahomaâs 77 counties will split an additional $768 million. Its 10 largest municipalities will divvy up $300 million. Those include cities like Oklahoma, Tulsa, Moore, Norman, Enid, Lawton and Shawnee.
The remaining 580 Oklahoma communities with populations under 50,000 will eventually split $237 million â as long as they apply for funds through the stateâs Municipal League. The state will have some oversight in the distribution of those funds, and Wednesday, lawmakers serving on the Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding looked at a proposal that would allocate the money based on population size.
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April 14, 2021
MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. The Madison County Sheriff’s Department spent a long afternoon discussing the funds required to meet their needs.
The Madison County Commission’s budget committee met on Wednesday to start the budget process for their next fiscal year.
The sheriff’s office is again requesting a significant increase.
“It’s around 25 million. Lot’s of it has to do with a change in overtime policy on holidays, then a change in the raises that went in because the award back in the first part of the year,” said Madison County Sheriff John Mehr.
Sheriff Mehr says what’s also in the budget request is funding to hire new school resource officers, additional K-9 officers, two investigators and four additional deputies for the road.