Budget overage hits Wilson County JP in pocket

Wilson County Pct. 1 Justice of the Peace Jared Shaw will have to pay out of his own pocket for going over his office’s budget during this fiscal year. Shaw, who spoke to the Wilson County Commissioners Court during the Sept. 22 regular meeting, said the overages — totaling around [post_excerpt],600 — result from trying to maximize his department’s current budget for the growing amount of precinct cases. “As we stand right now, we are already at the same number of cases that we did last year, and we still have another quarter to go. That’s a lot of ink,...

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