Comm Center Gets Budget Cut, Others Don’t

The Hall County supervisors made a surprising move when they offered a $10,000 raise to the county corrections director Fred Ruiz, but only after they cut one new dispatcher position, postponed the creation of a back-up comm center, and eliminated funding for a radio narrowbanding project. Several other agencies also had their budgets cut, but commissioners said Ruiz was working hard on a new jail and deserved the pay raise to $89,309 a year, the highest county pay. Read more about the money movement here.