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Resolutions part 11 - The sheriff’s office responds
As I said in yesterday’s post, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones was unavailable for in-depth questions about the county’s relationship with Resolutions, Community Solutions.
But here is a synopsis of what his second in command said:
It’s misleading to refer to Resolutions as a drug and alcohol treatment agency, because their responsibilities include food service, laundry and maintenance at all county jails, according to Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Anthony Dwyer.
And this is why it made sense for the agency to oversee the renovation, he said.
“The fact that they assisted down at the Court Street facility was not completely out of character for what they do on a day to day basis here,” he said. “It would make sense that the people that are already providing a maintenance service for you be involved in renovating a building that you own.”
Dwyer said sheriff’s deputies were on hand to oversee the inmates, which were put to work on manual labor such as removing bars from cells to create an open bay layout, and grinding off paint, under the watch of Resolutions.
“I think what was being expended was proper, from what I’ve seen,” he said. “Everything that I saw that was occurring during the operating phases was appropriate.”
Dwyer said he wasn’t aware of the specific agreements between Resolutions and the county and doesn’t know why there was no contract.
“I think the decision was appropriate, but how it gets done and making sure you have the checks and balances is the question,” he said.
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By enough already
June 25, 2009 2:08 PM | Link to this
Enough is enough. Rename your story… this is not about Reso. It is about your commissioners who apparently don’t remember what they sign. It isn’t reso’s responsibility to be
By enough already
June 25, 2009 2:11 PM | Link to this
It isn’t Reso’s responsibility to see if the county got other bids on contracts. Your journalism is so poor it can’t even be published in the real newspaper… so sad
By Larry
June 25, 2009 4:26 PM | Link to this
Come-on Resolutions has been doing business with the county for how many years, clearly they were aware that contacts as large as theirs require a bid. They were milking the system for their own benefit and you can bet there is a backroom deal somewhere in this between them and elected officials.
By Dorothy from Oz
June 25, 2009 4:46 PM | Link to this
“Enough Already” has it right. It is not a non-profit organization’s responsibility to argue with the county when the county has a job to be done. This reporting job by Mr. Sweigert is reckless and premature. Sadly, the Sheriff’s response to this “journalism” was knee-jerk, politics, that has hurt many people.
By Dorothy from Oz
June 25, 2009 5:06 PM | Link to this
… and will not actually save the county any money. It is true that Resolutions is guilty of allowing the Sheriff and his cronies to bully them into “favors” in return for a cooperative relationship. No matter how much Mr. Sweigert digs, he will never find evidence of personal enrichment on the part of Resolutions management. What he will find is a group of executives more concerned with its county partners, than its own employees. No management team as oblivious as Resolution’s could ever manage to steal from the county and get away with it.
By Grover
June 25, 2009 8:33 PM | Link to this
If Resolutions (it’s owners) are a Non-profit then we all need to start being non-proit as we aren’t getting million dollar sweetheart deals from the county. It also sounds like Resolutions is running the jail, what is it the sheriff does?