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Lubbock taxpayers eating costs for overbuilt jail

In Lubbock County, a new jail that the commissioners court claimed would generate revenue and reduce burdens on taxpayers is gobbling up the county budget and squeezing out other priorities, the Lubbock Avalanche Journal reported ("County budget jailed," July 22):With commissioners still days away from knowing how much tax revenue they may expect, employee raises, new hires to handle growth and long-planned projects seemed set to wait until next year. "We're held hostage, more or less, by the jail," County Judge Tom Head said. The budget process began this year with a letter from Head to elected officials and other department bosses asking for no increases in their budget requests for the next year. Jail costs, as well as the county's newly created medical examiner's office, became priorities over the last year, he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).