INGHAM COUNTY ROAD PATROL:The Ingham County Commissioners have a resolution introduced announcing a change in policy regarding rural police services. The resolution is drafted to reduce or eliminate totally all of the funds for road patrol by the Ingham County Sheriffs office and requests that local nits provide their own road patrol through contracts with Ingham County or local police operations. This cost will be bore by the local units. If the local unit cannot (and most cannot) designate funds from their current budget a millage request would be necessary to provide the funds for police service. Trustee Bob Hayes and I along with other supervisors and representatives from rural communities attended a County Commissioners meeting and protested this resolution. We feel we do not demand from the Sheriffs office the assistance that the cities and villages do. We have asked for more information as to what services we are getting now and statistics on calls the road patrol in the rural areas has responded to. We pay a millage now for this coverage and we should continue to receive road patrol for our area. The Commissioners have already eliminated the entire paramedic program and the DARE program. Please contact our County Commissioner Randy Schafer for more information on how to stop further cuts to these services. Commissioner Schafer is working hard to keep the funding for road patrol. I will keep attending the County meetings and work to keep our rural road patrol from being eliminated.

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