County OKs jail contract

Chase County Commissioners approved a contract for jail services to be presented to the City of Imperial’s council at the commissioners May 14 meeting.
    Commissioner Jacci Brown and Sheriff Kevin Mueller had worked with city council member Chad Yaw to come up with an agreement. Brown said she felt the county made concessions to come up with a contract both sides could agree to.
    The county, as it had previously said, agreed to pay housing costs for city prisoners to go to other jails and conceded that the city doesn’t have to contract with another jail. Stipulations were included in the agreement for what prisoners would be accepted in the Chase County Jail.
    Brown and Mueller said in conversations with Yaw the city tentatively  agreed to help pay dispatch costs. Research by Mueller showed that other counties in Nebraska, such as Keith, Cherry and Lincoln, which have agreements with cities there to help with dispatch costs.
    Brown said the response from the city was good, but comments by city attorney Josh Wendell at the last city council meeting left her feeling frustrated.
    Commissioners paid half of the disputed $436 hospital bill as a show of good faith and asked the city to pay the other half.

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