PIERRE — The Hughes County Commission has come up with a budget after every department looked deep into what was needed and what could be left behind. Commissioner Connie Hohn outlined some of the cuts after hearing from department heads for over an hour…
Hughes County has also located over one-point-five million in revenue from Sheriff Patrick Callahan and the Hughes County Jail…
The projected number of state inmates to potentially be housed at the Hughes County Jail are 46 prisoners at 95-dollars per day. Over the course of a year that could bring in the one-point-five million in revenue along with an increase in federal prisoners. Commissioner Randy Vance says the county is missing out on valuation especially in Pierre….
While the Commission came up with a workable budget, reserves will be needed to balance the budget out.
