Pinal County Supervisors are fixing contract issues
By ANTHONY SMITH | Coolidge Examiner
Supervisor Smith
The Board of Supervisors has taken another step toward fixing problems associated with Pinal County’s contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which terminated on July 24.
For eight years, Pinal County taxpayers have been covering the burden of this ill-conceived contract. The current Board of Supervisors wasn’t the first to discover that the lack of a fair per diem rate was causing us to bleed millions of dollars; however, we are the first to take action to correct the issue.
On Aug. 6, the Board of Supervisors voted to reduce the jail detention budget by $5 million. The budget reduction was necessary because we no longer receive the $11 million in revenue for housing ICE detainees in our county jail, and a large staff isn’t necessary to oversee empty cells.
