Denver Post
LONGMONT — Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle will get the two additional nurses he has sought for his jail staff, under a tentative budget decision the Board of County Commissioners have made for 2016.
That will cost the county a projected $76,809 each per nurse.
Commissioners Deb Gardner, Elise Jones and Cindy Domenico said at a recent budget work session that they supported tapping that same fund to pay for other additional jail-related spending the sheriff’s office sought. That includes: $25,000 for the increased amounts of food that has to be provided to a growing population of jail inmates; $50,000 to cover the medical and mental health care required by those inmates; and $512,413 to upgrade part of the jail’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning system.
Full story: Boulder County jail to get two more nurses under tentative budget