BOLIVIA—Overtime is an issue Sheriff John Ingram wants to address in the next fiscal year.
“An area that consumes overtime is the courthouse,” Ingram told county commissioners during last week’s budget workshop.
Ingram said an additional need in the courthouse is another bailiff due to the increase in court activity.
The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office has seven full-time deputies who work the courthouse, but they still worked 1,297 hours of overtime in 2012 at a cost of $41,600.