Inmates may be required to pay their own way
Staff reporter
Marion County inmates may be required to pay their way when staying in the local jail.
Marion County Commission is considering a resolution that would charge inmates for meals, use of clothing and bedding, transportation, and hygiene products.
In other business:
— County employees may lose sick leave benefits. The commission is considering a short-term disability insurance that would eliminate the need for the county to pay employees 100 percent of their wages when they aren't working.
Instead employees would receive 66-2/3 percent of their wages for illness or injury.
— Numerous county roads are slated for re-sealing this spring. Fifty-two miles are planned in the project throughout the county.
— Consolidating law enforcement into one countywide entity also is being researched by the commission.
— An illegal salvage operation in rural Peabody was given a timeline to assist with becoming compliant and being issued a conditional use permit.
A survey must be completed within 90 days and the majority of a fence erected by Oct. 1.
— Zoning changes may be made at Marion County Park and Lake regarding the mobile home park. Currently the park is not zoned which puts it in the agriculture category.
— Property valuations will be mailed this week from the county appraiser's office.
