One week after the Will County Board’s Finance Committee talked about taking an ax to Sheriff Paul Kaupas’ 2014 budget, the committee chairman on Tuesday offered the sheriff an “olive branch.”
The sheriff’s budget is the county’s biggest and is routinely in the red by the end of the year. Last year, its deficit was $2.8 million, this year’s is expected at about $3 million and next year’s could go even higher.
But Kaupas contends that the county board underfunds his department every year. For instance, the sheriff’s department routinely uses about $1.8 million a year in overtime because it is...
