Finance

Finance oversees all financial and purchasing matters of the Sheriff's Office. It directs the annual performance-based program budget for the office, which includes monitoring expenditures and performance measures, producing financial reports and projections, conducting financial analysis, and implementing fiscal control policies and procedures. Finance represents the Sheriff by presenting budget, fiscal, and contract requests before the Board of County Commissioners for approval. 

Finance also develops and administers contracts for police and dispatching services. Finance staff is responsible for managing all grants received by the Sheriff's Office including submitting applications and financial reports. Other duties of Finance include writing competitive bid documents for products and services utilized by the office. Finance staff also has the responsibility for ordering, receiving, storing and distributing office supplies for the Sheriff's Office, as well as food, housekeeping, and laundry supplies for the correctional facilities.

Each year, Finance participates in the preparation of two budget documents. The first is a tax budget required under ORC 5705.28 and is used as the basis for the annual operating budget for the following year. The second, and more important, document is the annual operating budget, which outlines how the Sheriff's Office expects to expend its appropriated funds, and what revenues are anticipated to be collected in the coming year. This budget includes requests for additional personnel as well as new and replacement capital equipment (i.e. vehicles, computers, etc.), which are justified through performance measures. A baseline budget is also developed for personal services, benefits, along with materials and services. Following the approval of the budget by the Board of County Commissioners, Finance begins the process of securing purchase orders, developing competitive bid documents, and vouchering invoices for payment of supplies and services.