Commissioners OK supplement to jail OT budget
The Kootenai County jail
MADISON HARDY/Press file
COEUR d’ALENE — With the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office outspending its budget for overtime about seven months before the end of fiscal year 2026, mainly due to overtime worked by detention deputies at the county jail, commissioners agreed to supplement the budget.
The agency had spent about $725,839 of its $925,000 budget on overtime as of Jan. 29, according to KCSO, and projected to exceed it in late February.
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