At this week’s fiscal court meeting, the topic of fee pooling for the sheriff’s office was a central topic.
Magistrate Mickey Garner proposed the idea to Sheriff Derek Polston as a way to fund adding hazardous duty retirement into the county budget.
WJRS News reached out to the Kentucky Association of Counties this week to learn more about the system.
A spokesperson for KACO told WJRS News that more than 30 counties with a population under 70,000 use a fee pool system for their sheriff’s office.
Barren, Garrard, Hart, and Lincoln counties are among those near Russell County that use a fee pool system.
State law requires counties with a population over 70,000 to use a fee pool system. There are 12 counties with those population numbers.
Under a fee pool system, moneys that come into the sheriff’s office are not spent out through the sheriff’s office. Instead, that money is turned over to the county treasurer, who would pay invoices and other expenses.
