County law enforcement rates to climb

    GRUNDY CENTER — Grundy County law enforcement contracts will see a 4 percent rate hike in Fiscal Year 2015. Monday the Board of Supervisors approved the new rate for contracts, which cover enforcement contracted by the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department.
    The contracts are for Conrad, Dike, Reinbeck and Wellsburg, which require officers to live in town and have hours of coverage requirements, as well as Beaman, Holland, Morrison and Stout which have no required residency or minimum hours of service requirement.
    Sheriff Rick Penning said the county always raises rates incrementally and that rate hikes cover more than increased wages to deputies.
    “I think 4 percent is a good number,” he said.
    Supervisor Mark Schildroth added that the current system, which has the Sheriff’s Department covering all of the county except the city of Grundy Center, has been working well.
 

For more of this story see the Jan. 30 Grundy Register.