Putnam County Sheriff Robert Langley is responding to the County Legislature calling his request for a funding transfer to cover overnight 'budget manipulation."  Langley commended the members for publicly questioning the proposed budget transfers as being fiscally responsible, as they should with all County departments. 

Langley noted that budgets are estimates because no department can determine unanticipated costs a month or a year in advance.  He added that his Department held off purchasing various budgeted items until the end of the year to make sure money was available to purchase them.  Langley instead chose to transfer other funds to Patrol overtime, which he says has been substantially underfunded for many years.

The Sheriff's Department has renegotiated the daily housing rate they charge the United States Marshall’s Service to board in prisoners, generating an estimated additional $350,000 in revenue. The rate had not been renegotiated since it was established in 1992.  The Civil Division increased its revenue by over 60% in 2019 by updating its policies and procedures to be consistent with existing laws.