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When “Shall” Meets “So What?” | Fisher County Accountability

Publisher’s Perspective | When “Shall” Meets “So What?”

Thursday, September 24, 2026

Patricia Hurt, Publisher | Double Mountain Chronicle On Saturday, Sept. 12, we published our working notes on the Fisher County budget and told readers to bring a checklist to Monday’s meeting.That night, a reader caught something we should have put much higher on the page.

TWO FISHER COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES RECEIVED MORE THAN TWICE THEIR REGULAR PAY IN OVERTIME

Fisher County paid two sheriff’s deputies $321,206 in overtime

Jeff Hurt I

Thursday, June 4, 2026

The first article in this series examined the budget record: how Sheriff’s Office overtime closed fiscal year 2025 far above the adopted overtime budget, and how the county later reconciled those lines through amendments.

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Fisher County sworn-officer overtime ran six times over adopted budget

Jeff Hurt I

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Fisher County's year-end financial ledger shows the sheriff's sworn overtime lines closed fiscal year 2025 at $215,175 against an adopted overtime budget of $35,689 — more than six times the original budget.