The legislature moved all the responsibility for the non-non-non prisoners to the County jails and probation. Then they cut off all the regular COPs funds and Rural Sheriff’s funding. Then they added all sorts of new Mental Health, welfare and Human Services responsibilities on County government. If the Repubs don’t allow the tax increase to go to the voters, I predict that many County governments, including ours, will collapse within the year.
Counties, unlike the State, can go bankrupt.