{"id":274233,"date":"2013-08-21T10:50:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274233"},"modified":"2013-08-22T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:23:29","slug":"sheriff-comments-on-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274233","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Comments on Budget Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=274234\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-274234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/08\/thumb_Larry-Smith1.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_Larry-Smith\" width=\"142\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-274234\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Smith County commissioners release their 2014 proposed budget. KETK reports the people who foot that bill, the taxpayers, were invited Tuesday evening to weigh in. The renovation and expansion of the Smith County Jail will spill over into the 2014 budget. Sheriff Larry Smith (pictured) says, \u201cAny part that I submitted to the commissioners court of my budget was definitely all needs and no wants it\u2019s something that we absolutely had to have.\u201d With the new facility opening up by the end of next year, Smith met with County Judge Joel Baker to make sure their new facility will be properly staffed. Two of the floors in the new jail will hold 144 inmates, and the third will hold 96. That means inmates who\u2019ve been kept out of the county because of overcrowding will be brought back. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But more room means Sheriff Smith needs 10 more jailers. Lately, they\u2019ve been bringing jailers in on their days off. There will also be a change of supervision from indirect to direct. Jailers will now be inside the jail with the inmates. Baker says there needs to be training involved with making this kind of transition. But Baker says it will decrease expenses and reduce the need for additional detention officers. \u201cthere is going to be time for a learning curve, as we move into this new type of management of a facility and there is going to be some things that we\u2019re going to have to ease into,\u201d says the judge. And Sheriff Smith is pleased with what\u2019s carved out for the jail and the sheriff\u2019s office in the 2014 budget. \u201cI feel confident we will get through it,\u201d says Smith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Smith County commissioners release their 2014 proposed budget. KETK reports the people who foot that bill, the taxpayers, were invited Tuesday evening to weigh in. The renovation and expansion of the Smith County Jail will spill over into the 2014 budget. Sheriff Larry Smith (pictured) says, \u201cAny part that I submitted to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=274233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sheriff Comments on Budget Proposal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 07:54:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274336,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274233\/revisions\/274336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}