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May 28, 2002
TO: Kerr County Judge Fred Henneke and
Kerr County Commissioners' Court
FROM: Sheriff W.R. Hierholzer
RE: Long Range Planning Committee's Report
Consider and discuss Long Range Planning Committee's report for Kerr
County Sheriff's Office.
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Department


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KERB COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
LONG-RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE
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MISSION STATEMENT
TO PROVIDE A HIGH LEVEL OF
PROTECTION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
TO THE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS OF
KERR COUNTY IN A PROFESSIONAL AND
COST-EFFECTIVE MANNER ON AN ON-
GOINGBASIS.
FOREWARD ,
Significant population and economic growth in Kerr County in recent years
- coupled with an increasingly complex and sometimes dangerous environment in
which we live - is challenging our law enforcement agencies to successfully and
efficiently accomplish their mission.
Locally, our proximity to San Antonio, the Interstate 10 corridor that
bisects the county, and other local factors, in addition to increasing legislative and
regulatory dictates to law enforcement agencies that must be locally funded, all
contribute to a strong need to strategically plan over an extended period -rather
than for incremental and arbitrary one-year budgetary periods.
Recognizing this need, the Kerr County Sheriff and Kerr County
Commissioners Court eazly in 2001 instituted a planning process to develop afive-
year master plan for the Kerr County Sheriffs Department and Adult Detention
Center. The county judge and each county commissioner appointed one member,
and the sheriff appointed two members, to aseven-person planning committee.
The organizational meeting was held in February, 2001, with monthly meetings
since. The result is a proposed master plan for the department for the five-year
period beginning with the 2003-2004 budget yeaz.
Even though the county by law is required to budget on a one-year basis,
this five-yeaz "blueprint" has been designed to assist all involved in the planning
process to "think forward," to prioritize future needs and more effectively position
the current and future tax dollazs to meet those needs.
This effort is not meant to be a "plan set in concrete" but rather a starting
place and a roadmap, subject to change over time. An annual review has been
built into our recommendations.
Insofaz as the committee can ascertain, this is the first such comprehensive
long-range planning process ever undertaken regarding the Kerr County Sheriff s
department. We hope it is just the beginning, and that other long-range planning
will follow.
Respectfully submitted,
Kerr County Sherii~'s Department
Long Range Planning Committee
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 2 of 19
SUMMARY OVERVIEW
Overall, the Committee found the Ken County Sheriff s Department
(including the Adult Detention Center) to be swell-functioning division of Ken
County government, but one in need of significant additions and improvements, if
the department is not to fall behind in its service obligations. While improvements
and increased funding over the last few years have brought the department's level
of functioning much closer to where it should be than it was even 5 years ago,
these increases have not fully overcome previous decades in which the
department's funding failed to keep pace with ever-increasing population and even
faster-growing crime statistics, and with the technology revolution.
As a result, the Committee feels that there are some azeas within the
department that need attention immediately, as well as others that will need such
attention within the next few years in order to prevent problems from arising. As
with most county operational issues, these problems will require additional
funding. The Committee is extremely aware of the fact that the Kerr County
Sheriff's Budget already consumes nearly 25% of the county budget each year,
and we aze similazly awaze of the fact that as expenses rise, so must the tax burden
on our citizens. Thus, we do not make these recommendations lightly. It is our
intention to present the department's predicted future needs in a format that will
allow for planning and prioritizing, which will permit the incurred costs to be
spread out over time, thus lessening the impact on any given budget year.
The following pages detail vazious objectives and strategies for obtaining
these requirements for the department in the coming 5 years. Each are important
to the well-being of the department, and to the security and safety of the citizens of
Kerr County. Any one of us would be pleased to go over any of these items in
detail with the Court as a whole or any individual member; however, in the
interest of time and with a view towards effecting the prioritization that we believe
is so important to this project, we have singled out the top five items or issues that
the committee believes aze necessary to accomplish the continued effective and
efficient operation of the department.
1. Communications
2. Personnel
3. Records Maaa~ement
4. PbYSical Facilites Addition
5. Optimize Use of Available Funds
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Plamiing Committee Report
Page 3 of 19
I. COMMUNICATIONS
The emergency communication system is a vital part of any law
enforcement/emergency operation. It is the necessazy link between the person with the
problem and the field personnel who can help resolve the problem most effectively. It
also offers the field personnel a degree of security and backup through contact with the
Law Enforcement Center, other field units, and other emergency personnel and
equipment/vehicles.
The current system has not kept pace with the growth in all areas of the county,
resulting in circumstances where law enforcement field personnel have not been able to
communicate by hand-held radio in 40-50% of the geographical azea within the county.
Once the officer leaves his patrol car, he can be effectively cut off from all
communications with his fellow officers and his agency. This is unacceptable, but this
part ofthe communications problem is being addressed with the decision by the
Commissioners' Court to purchase new convention VHF simulcast radio communications
system for the Kerr County Sheriff's Office. This new system will result in a guaranteed
95% coverage for the geographical area of Ken County withhand-held radios, and a
guaranteed 98% coverage with car radios.
The new system will also allow a conventional VHF radio to communicate with
800mh or 400mh radio systems, such as those currently in use in Gillespie County and
Kendall County. It will also provide the KCSO with two primary radio frequencies in
order for normal radio traffic to continue on one frequency at the same time that
emergencies or major events aze being handled on the second frequency.
With the full implementation ofthis system in 2002, we expect that this aspect of
KCSO radio concerns will have been met for the foreseeable future.
Another important aspect of communications that has not yet been fully addressed
is the need for a centralized dispatching center which would combine the Kemille Police
Department, Kerrville Fire Department and EMS, 9-1-1, Ingram City Marshal's OfFice,
and the KCSO, along with providing dispatch assistance for the Texas Alcohol Beverage
Commission, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Game Wazdens and Pazk Police,
Texas Department of Transportation, City of Kerrville Streets and Parks Department,
Kerr County Road and Bridge, Ken• County Animal Control and approximately eight
Volunteer Fire Departments. While there have been numerous discussions over the past
several yeazs between the various agencies that would be affected about how to
accomplish this goal, it has yet to be implemented. The Committee urges the
Commissioners Court to make this a high priority.
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 4 of 19
II. PERSONNEL
The Committee believes that additional personnel for the Kerr County
Sheriff (Jail and Sheriff s Office) is a CRITICAL need. The current
number of personnel budgeted is substantially below minimum levels.
The Committee feels that the KCSO is substantially understaffed,
according to state recommendations and requirementsl. The Committee
recognizes, however, that personnel expenditures make up the great majority
of cost for the KCSO, and therefore it is unrealistic to recommend that all of
these deficiencies be addressed immediately. Therefore, we recommend
increases which should bring the staffing to within $0% of what we
believe is an optimum levelz within three years. This recommendation is
advisory only, and is subject to change in annual reviews, depending on
changing conditions and community needs.
The calculations made on the following pages reflect the Committee's
analysis of what the current and projected personnel needs are for the Kerr
County Sheriff's Office and for the Kerr County Jail. Since current needs
are not being met, future funding plans should focus both on bringing the
number of employees up to the numbers needed today, as well as planning to
provide an appropriate number of employees to account for predicted future
growth.
Texas state standazds generally recommend staffing at the rate of 1 patrol officer for each 1,000 citizens.
Other standazds merely state that there should be a sufficient number of otlicers to efficiently and
effectively serve the needs of the population. Thus, population density and geographical considerations
should betaken into account in formulating an analysis of personnel needs.
Z Note that the Committee has predicted at least a 5% annual growth rate in the needs for the KCSO.
Therefore, at the and of this 3-year period, what we now list as 80% of personnel needs will actually
produce an effective rate of 70% of personnel needs for the yeaz 2005.
Ken County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Comtnittee Report
Page 5 of 19
SHERIFF'S OFFICE:
In one 24-hour time period, the Kerr County Sheriff currently should have the following
personnel on duty for each shift, in order to be fully staffed.
1 patrol supervisor
4 patrol deputies
2 dispatchers
Additional full-time personnel needed that do not require the multiplication factor (not
needed 24 hours per day)
4 CID (Criminal Investigation Division) officers
2 civil deputies
3 SRO's
1 Evidence Tech
7 secretarialladministrative staff
2 record clerks
2 bailiffs
1 dispatch supervisor
4 warrant officers
1 chief investigator
1 chief deputy
1 sheriff
7 full-time, 24-hour/day positions x 53 = 35 employees needed on staff
29 full-time day-only positions needed = 29 employees needed on staff
TOTAL = 64
SHERIFF'S OFFICE -NEED 64, HAVE 41
(CURRENT PERSONNEL = 64% OF WHAT IS NOW NEEDED)
Additional personnel needed to bring staff to 80% of recommended
number, allocated by year (by 2005 = 51 people, or an increase of 10
positions)
2003	2004	2005
2 atrol	2 atrol	4 atrol
1 civil	1 civil	
s Note that in order to fully staff any position that needs coverage 24 hours per day, the County will need 5
full-time employees on the payroll to cover one position. This calculation is based on the following
formula: 1 year = 8760 hours, which equals 1095 8-hour shifts. One full-time employee will work 240
shifts in a year, on the average, taking vacation, sick days, and holidays into account. Therefore it takes
4.56 employees to cover one 24-hour per day position. The Committee rounded this 4.56 up to 5 to
account for additional training requirements that are a part of a law enforcement officer's job requirements.
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 6 of 19
ADULT DETENTION CENTER
In one 24-hour time period, the Kerr County Adult Detention Center cturently should
have the following personnel on duty for each shift, in order to be fully staffed.
2 booking officers
4 jailers°
1 kitchen staff
1 nurse
2 prisoner services (church, rec., visitation, classes)
2 control room officers
Additional full-time personnel needed that do not require the multiplication factor (not
needed 24 hours per day)
5 transport deputies
2 records clerks (3 with scanner)
1 admin. secretary
2 commissary employees
1 secretazialladministrative staff
2 jail administrators
12 full-time, 24-hour(day positions x 5
13 full-time day-only positions needed
TOTAL
= 60 employees needed on staff
= 13 employees needed on staff
= 73
ADULT DETENTION CENTER -NEED 73, HAVE 35
(CURRENT PERSONNEL = 48% OF WHAT IS NOW NEEDED)
Additional personnel needed to bring staff to 80% of recommended
number, allocated by year (by 2005 =58 people, or an increase of 23
positions)
2003	2004	2005
4 'ailers	4 'ailers	4 'ailers
1 trans ort	1 trans ort	1 trans ort
1 bookie	1 bookie	1 bookie
1 clerk	1 risoner services	1 control room
1 control room	1 control room	
The Texas Commission on Jail Standazds requires that the county have 1 jailer involved in actual inmate
observation/care for each 48 inmates. Kerr County has been averaging more than 160 inmates per day,
which requres a minimum of 4 jailers. However, if recent trends continue (see attached news story from
the Kerrville Daily Times, November 7, 2001, listing the jail ca~sus at 203), our need for jailers will
increase even faster than the projections contained within this report. Note also that our increased census
of prisoners has diminished our gpacity to handle out-of--county prisoners. In the past Kerr County has
been able to achieve nearly $''/z million in revenue from these out-of-county prisoners. Thus our increase in
jail population threatens not only to substantially increase our costs of housing prisoners, it also threatens to
dramatically decrease our income.
Ken County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 7 of 19
III. RECORDS MANAGEMENT
Records management is another azea of critical need in the KSCO. In
recent years the technological revolution has resulted in a huge increase in the
numbers of records being generated in all areas of law enforcement, while
govemments have not kept up with the technology needed to keep up with this
information explosion. As a result, KCSO, like so many similarly situated
governmental departments, must deal with a mountain of data in cumbersome
paper files. Although much of the current record-keeping is done via computer,
there are vast amounts of paper that aze not duplicated in our electronic data
system.
KCSO is regulated to a great extent by the Texas Government Code Section
441.158, which provides for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to
issue records retention schedules for local governments. In this retention
schedule, the KSO is required to maintain and store records for a range of years,
depending on the type of record kept, from 2 years to indefinitely. These records
include arrest and offense records, incident records, operational support records,
jail records, juvenile delinquency records, records of writs and process, permit
records and associated documentation, financial records, personnel and training
records, and other miscellaneous records such as applications for deputies, convict
labor records, estray records, and memos written by administrative staff.
KCSO currently has in excess of 150 five-drawer filing cabinets dedicated
to records, that aze currently full, and additionally has three storage rooms within
the facility that are also full of boxed records dating back to the 1970's and even
eazlier. The KCSO produces new paper documents at the rate of approximately
42,000 per month.
The only way to catalog, identify and be able to retrieve anything from this
mass of paper is to reduce the documents to an electronic format. It should be a
priority for this Court to fund a method for addressing records storage and
retrieval. At a minimum, the KCSU should have dedicated records management
personnel and equipment sufficient to permit the scanning and cataloging of new
records as they aze generated and to reduce the existing older documents to
electronic form in those circumstances where this would permit destruction and
disposal of the majority of the hard copy documents.
This would have the additional benefit of freeing up valuable floor space in
the facility for other use.
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 8 of 19
IV. PHYSICAL FACILITIES ADDITION
When the Kerr County Law Enforcement Facility opened in 1996 it was
projected to meet Kerr County's needs for law enforcement offices and jail for the
next 15-20 yeazs. Although the building was designed specifically to allow for
easy addition of more jail and administrative space, it was not anticipated that this
would be needed for the foreseeable future. These predictions have fallen short.
As the Court is awaze from recent news articles, the jail has been full in excess of
its capacity of 192 inmates several times in the last year. Consequently, Kerr
County can no longer house out-of--county inmates, which brought additional
revenues to Kerr County in excess of $''/z million dollazs in 2001. Currently,
without out-of--county inmates, the jail daily population continues to remain at an
average of 145-160. According to Texas Jail Commission recommendations, the
number of inmates that Kerr County should house in a facility with 192 beds and
continue to be able to properly classify inmates, the daily population should be no
more than 80% of the maximum capacity, or 153 inmates.
The administrative office area is similazly at its maximum capacity, and
consequently office space that was designed for workroom azeas and conference
rooms has been converted to employee offices, and some single occupancy office
areas aze now occupied by up to 4 employees. If additional employees are added
as per the recommendations of the Committee, there is not current adequate space
to put them without either remodeling or adding new space to the administration
area.
Given that our 2% annual growth in county population has been
substantially exceeded by our growth in jail population (43% over the past 5
years), and our daily bookings have similazly increased at an exponential 72%
over the past 5 years, it does not take complex calculations to determine that the
current jail and administrative facilities aze not going to last for the predicted 15-
20 yeazs. The Commissioners Court should give immediate and serious attention
to the issue of adding more physical facilities at the Law Enforcement Center.
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 9 of 19
V. OPTIMIZE USE OF AVAILABLE FUNDS ..
The Committee urges the Cormnissioners Court to look not only at
increased funding to assist the Department in its attempt to upgrade; it should also
continue to consider and take advantage of induect funding resources. For
instance, the Department has been highly successful with very limited resources in
the number of successful grants applied for.
The Committee believes that there are numerous funding sources that will
provide grant money for law enforcement, but most of these require matching
funds. The Committee therefore recommends that if it is statutorily and
constitutionally permissible, the Court should establish a sinking fund for the
purpose of having an available pool of money from which the County could
provide matching funds for these grants. If a sinking fund is not an appropriate
mechanism for setting aside such funds, inquiry should be made into other
appropriate ways to set aside potential matching funds for future grants.
The Committee notes with approval that the Court and the Department have
already taken advantage of this method of indirect funding. During the duration of
the Long Range Planning Committee's duties, The Department received
permission to apply for a grant for a live fingerprint scanning system, and was
successful in that effort. The Department received $114,008.00 for this purpose.
This system does away with inked and frequently unreadable prints, a major
problem with the old rolled-ink manual system. You get cleaz prints the first time,
and the system automatically loads the data into an electronic database that is then
immediately transmitted into FBI and DPS databases. Within minutes, the
Department can obtain notification of a positive identification, if one is available,
or information that the individual may be wanted.
Not only does this system save time, but it also dramatically reduces the
number of personnel hours required to take prints, transmit and copy them, and to
retake them when the unreadable ones are rejected by the state and federal
azchiving systems. Despite the fact that this system may appeaz to have required
substantially more financial outlay in its initial stages than the traditional manual
system, when the cost is amortized over time, and the savings aze analyzed, it
becomes evident that this new system will save untold amounts money and time
over its usable lifetime. Luckily, this grant did not require matching funds, the
exception rather than the rule.
Another example of the KCSO implementing an efficient use of technology
to save money and time in the long run is the installation of a computer in various
other local law enforcement agencies and prosecutors' offices that will enable
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 10 of 19
these agencies to have direct access to the Department's computerized jail records,
inmate records and defendant case information. This project, while it will have
some nominal initial costs to other participating agencies, will save an immense
amount of time and personnel costs in the long run, for both the Department and
the other agencies.
The Committee applauds the Department and the Commissioners' Court for
its efforts in this area, and encourages both to continue to pursue this kind of
opportunity. Any new project should be analyzed not merely on the basis of its
actual cost, but on whether that initial cost will enable the Department to save
substantial amounts of money or other valuable resources over time. Even a
substantial capital outlay should not be dismissed out of hand if it can be shown to
provide real net savings in the future.
The Committee suggests that this aspect of funding acquisition is so
potentially lucrative that it would be a prudent investment of county resources to
dedicate one employee at least part-time to grant-writing and research. With the
expertise that would come with experience over time, the County could really
maximize its utilization of this resource.
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 11 of 19
MEASURES OF GROWTH .
KERB COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND JAIL
Based on the criteria identified below, the Long Range Planning Committee
has projected a growth rate for the Kerr County Sheriff's Office and the
Adult Detention Center of 5 % per years. This growth projection is based on
the historical numbers set out below, and such projection formed the basis
for all growth assumptions in this report.
SHERIFF'S OFFICE CRITERIA
- 2% historical annual population growth rate
- 11 % increase in calls for service over last 5 years
- 24% increase in arrests per year over last 5 years
JAIL CRITERIA
- 2% historical annual population growth rate
- 43 % increase in prisoner population over last 5 years
- 72 % increase in bookings over last 5 years
' The Committee aclmowledges that it is impossible to predict with real accuracy what future growth rates
will be, but since the county's population has steadily increased at nearly 2% per year for many years, and
since the crime rate has continued to increase, both locally and nationwide, at a rate faster than the
population growth, we believe that this projection is realistic, and may perhaps be somewhat conservative.
Ken Cotmty Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 12 of 19
KERB COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE
OUTLINE FOR FUTURE PLANNING COMMITTEES
GOAL A -SAFETY
MAKE KERB COUNTY THE SAFEST COUNTY IN THE STATE OF TEXAS
OBJECTIVE 1-CRIME PREVENTION
Strategy A -Community Education
(i) Neighborhood Watch
(ii) Home Inspection/Certification
(iii) Crime Stoppers
(iv) TRIAD
(v) Child Fingerprint Program
(vi) Maintain and improve Sheriff's Office web site
Strategy B -School Education
(i)	DARE (Drug Awareness Resistance Education)
(ii)	SRO Activities (School Resource Officer)
(iii)	Law Enforcement Classes
(iv)	Inside Out Program
(v)	School Crimestoppers
OBJECTIVE 2 -MAINTAIN AWELL-TRAINED PROFESSIONAL SHERIFF'S
OFFICE
Strategy A -Policies and Procedures
(i) Continuously updated "policy and Procedure" Manual
(ii) Implement a "Major Incident" review team
Strategy B -Training
(i) In-service training on policies and procedures and FTO (Field
Training Officer) program
(ii) TCLEOSE (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
Standazds and Education) mandated training
(iii) Employee evaluation program
(iv) Specialized officer training
(v) Fireazms training
(vi) Supervisory training
(vii) Community Policing training
(viii) Tactical driving
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 13 of 19
Strategy C -Officer Benefits and Equipment .
(i) Competitive salaries and benefits
Need parity in compensation and benefits between Sheriff s Office
employees and other local law enforcement agencies' employees
(ii) Educational incentives
Currently the educational programs being offered to KCSO
employees aze sufficient to meet state requirements. The
Committee merely recommends that the Sheriff continue to
monitor the state's requirements to insure that educational
requirements are being met
(iii) Review and upgrading of equipment
Ken County has significantly upgraded the KCSO fleet of patrol
vehicles. In this respect, KCSO equipment is currently sufficient
to meet the needs of the department; however, if personnel
numbers are increased to the level recommended by the
Committee, the need for more patrol vehicles will azise at that
time. With respect to other equipment needed, the Committee
believes that there is a significant need for upgraded and additional
computer equipment. In particulaz, the Committee notes that there
is a great need for a scanner for use in the records department.
There aze a huge number of records that need to be reduced to an
electronic format for better storage and retrieval. The Committee
recommends that the Commissioners Court increase the KCSO
budget for needed equipment and ask the Sheriff to continue to
monitor the department's other equipment needs and report
additional need to the Court as they azise.
GOAL B -OPERATIONS:
PROVIDE FOR EFFECTIVE AND PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT OF
RESOURCES FOR THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
OBJECTIVE 1-SHERIFF'S OFFICE -IMPROVEMENTS
Strategy A - Personuel
(i) Certified Peace Officers (See attached Personnel Needs Chart)
(ii) Support Staff (See attached Personnel Needs Chart)
Strategy B -Facilities /Improvements
Despite the fact that the design of the current Kerr County Law
Enforcement was projected to serve the needs of the department for a
number of yeazs into the future, the department has already outgrown the
office portion of the facility and the jail has recently been also operating at
its full capacity. Therefore, the Committee recommends that the
Commissioners Court begin to consider future plans for expansion of the
physical facilities at the Law Enforcement Center.
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 14 of 19
Strategy C -Equipment
GOAL C -FINANCIAL
EFFICIENCIES THROUGH STRATEGIC PLANNING
OBJECTIVE 1-EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES
Strategy A -Spending Plan
(i) 5-yeaz strategic plan
(ii) annual review for revisions/modifications
Strategy B -Spending Offsets
(i) Volunteer Program
(ii) Reserve Program
Strategy C -Outside Source Revenues/Benefits
(i)	Grants Funding
(ii)	Fee Revisions/Updates
(iii)	Donations
(iv)	Work Programs
(v)	In-House Training
Ken County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 15 of 19
ADULT DETENTION CENTER
GOAL A -SECURITY
OBJECTIVE 1 -Ensure public safety through maximum security of the facility
Strategy A -Facilities and Equipment
(i)	Expansion and improvement of security perimeter
(n)	Add metal detectors to screen all persons entering visitor's area
(iii)	Install Automated Fingerprint Identification System (APIs)
(iv)	Upgrade security cameras and recording equipment
(v)	Maintenance and replacement of existing security equipment
Strategy B -- Maintain aWell-Trained Professional Staff
(i)	Policies and Procedures
	(a) Continuously updated "Policies and Procedures" Manual
	(b) Implement a "Major Incident" review team
(ii)	Training
	(a) In-service training on policy and procedure and FTO
	Program
	(b) TCLEOSE mandated training
	(c) Employee evaluation program
	(d) Specialized officer training
	(e) Supervisory training
Strategy C -	Officer Benefits and Equipment
(i)	Competitive salazies and benefits
(ii)	Educational incentives
(iii)	Review and upgrading of equipment
GOAL B -OPERATIONS
PROVH)E FOR EFFECTIVE AND PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT OF
RESOURCESNFOR THE ADULT DETENTION CENTER
OBJECTIVE 1-ADULT DETENTION CENTER IMPROVEMENTS
Strategy A -Personnel
(i) Certified Corrections Officers
(u) Support staff
Strategy B - Facilities/Improvements
Strategy C -Equipment
Ken County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 16 of 19
GOAL C -FINANCIAL
EFFICIENCIES THROUGH STRATEGIC PLANNING
OBJECTIVE 1-EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES
Strategy A -Spending Plan
(i) 5-year strategic plan
(ii) annual review for revisions/modifications
Strategy B -Spending Offsets
(i) Volunteer Program
(ii) Reserve Program
Strategy C -Outside Source RevenuesBenefits
(i)	Grants funding
(ii)	Fee revisions/updates
(iii)	Donations
(iv)	Work Programs
(v)	In-House training
Kerr County Sheriff
Long Range Planning Committee Report
Page 17 of 19
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
ROD MYERS - (COUNTY JUDGE APPOINTEE)
Rod Myers was unable to complete this project with the rest of the committee, as
he moved away from Kerrville before the project was completed. We thank you
Rod, for the input that you gave to the committee before you left!
KIRBY CUNNUNGHAM - (PRECINCT #1 APPOINTEE)
A resident of Kerr County since 1995, Cunningham holds degrees from Texas
A&M University and from Louisiana State University. Following 24 years in
management for two national trade organizations, he joined the Acacia Group -.a
national financial services firm - in 1985 as an investment advisor and financial
planner. He will retire from his practice with the Acacia Americas Group of
companies at the end of 2002.
JOHN COMEGYS - (PRECINCT #2 APPOINTEE)
Comegys, a resident of Kerc County since 1990, graduated from Austin College
with a major in Economics. He began a real estate development company in
Collin County that was sold in 1989. He now manages Brown Trout Capital
Investments, a private investment company.
DAVID BUROW - (PRECINCT #3 APPOINTEE)
Burow has been a resident of Kerr County since 1972. He graduated from
Comfort High School. He is employed by the Hill Country Telephone Co-op
where he has worked since 1972. While employed at the Telephone Co-op,
Burow has attended courses through the Texas Engineering Extension Service
with the Texas A&M University System.
DON TOWNSEND - (PRECINCT #4 APPOINTEE)
Townsend is a resident of Hunt, having moved to Kerr County after retiring from
Lockheed in 1995. Townsend was born in West Helena, Arkansas, and joined
the Air Force in 1950. After spending 4 years in the Air Force, he worked for
Convair on the B-58 progam as an electronics engineer. During this time he
also completed his master's degree and then went to work for NASA as a Booster
Systems Engineer in Mission Control for all of the Apollo flights, the manned
Skylab missions, and the joint US-Russian mission. He retired from NASA in
1988, and then worked for Lockheed until 1995, when he finally retired and
moved to Ken County.
ILSE BAILEY - (SHERIFF'S APPOINTEE)
Bailey has been a resident of Kerr County since 1991, when she became as
Assistant County Attorney for Kerc County. An attorney since 1983, she has been
a prosecutor in several counties, as well as a briefing attorney for the Texas
Supreme Court and an Assistant Attorney General. She formed the law fum of
Bailey, Danford & Emerson, PLLC, in 2000 with two other local lawyers, and
has developed an active practice in criminal defense, appellate work and general
civil litigation.
Kerr County Sheriff
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TOMMY HALL - (SHERIFF'S APPOINTEE)
Hall was born & raised in Kerr County. After assignments in San Antonio and
Del Rio working for the State of Texas, he moved back to Ken County in 1981,
to work with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission as the agent responsible
for Kerr, Gillespie, & Kimble Counties. In addition to numerous law
enforcement training hours, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Ag Economics
from Texas Tech University.
RUSTY HIERHOLZER -(KERB COUNTY SHERIFF)
Sheriff Hierholzer is a Kerrville native, and has been employed in law
enforcement for more than half his life. In addition to numerous law
enforcement certifications and credentials, he is a graduate of the FBI National
Law Enforcement Academy at Quantico, Virginia. Sheriff Hierholzer served as a
deputy under three different Kerr County Sheriffs and was the investigator for
the 148`" Judicial District Attorney prior to becoming sheriff in 2000.
NANCY ROBISON - (ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT)
Robison has been a resident of the Hill Country since 1968.Twenty years in retail, she
was the manager of two businesses and owner of Cards Plus in River Hills Mall for
eleven years. She has worked for Kerr County since 1998--in personnel for Sheriffs
Department and as Administrative Assistant to Sheriff for 3 years.
Kerr County Sheriff
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