Monday, March 4, 2013

Boone County Needs YOU

Both Boone County and Uncle Sam needs volunteers for local government.   Please look at the upcoming openings.  Think about volunteering and ask your neighbors to help us as well.

 

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34 Boone County Jail staffers' unpaid work now paid for - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

Why would the Sheriff’s Correction Department ever think that employees could be required to work without being paid?

By Jennifer Wheeler

RRSTAR.COM

 

Leaders don’t think the $34,000 check will break the department’s $2.7 million budget, although the paid time off could lead to an understaffed group billing taxpayers for overtime.

“That’s something we need to look at and study. We may need to respond in a different manner on how we do some other things,” jail supervisor Lt. John Hare said.

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