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In a letter dated Tuesday, the commissioners urged the council to adopt the local income tax rate to fund the $300 million jail ahead of the Nov. 1 deadline.
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Allen County Residents Against the Jail, an organization against building the new correctional facility, wrote a letter to the Allen County Council this week asking it to consider a new strategy, but some members, citing the pressure from the federal judge overseeing the case, said that proposal is not likely to get a vote.
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A week after a federal judge pressured the Allen County Council to fund the new jail proposal, the body delayed that vote for the second month in a row.
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At a federal court hearing on the status of the Allen County Jail, U.S. District Judge Damon R. Leichty warned "the people won't like the answer" if county officials do not fund a solution to the constitutionally deficient Allen County Jail.
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Allen County is increasing its staff at the county jail again after the County Council approved payroll funding for five new officers. Chronic understaffing was one of the issues tackled in the federal court order concerning jail issues.
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The request to take depositions comes before the next hearing on the federal court order addressing jail overcrowding at the Allen County Jail. The council recently voted down a proposed funding structure for a new jail that the county says is the way to correct the overcrowding and other issues.
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The Allen County Council voted down a .2% local income tax rate increase that was meant to fund building the new Allen County Jail.
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Allen County officials say it is impossible to fund building the new county correctional facility without a tax rate increase. The County Council is now considering what the rate increase will look like.
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Those issues were the subject of a federal court order from earlier in the year.
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After a federal court ordered Allen County to fix the living conditions and overcrowding problem at its current jail, the commissioners hired an architect to help them determine where the best location would be to build a new jail.