Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom says, "We provide public safety for the community in a lot of different facets from housing prisoners to doing patrol to providing detox, a lot of different programs. And we need to make sure that they're adequately funded and they're well run."

Thom also says they include fuel in their budget, which is difficult to plan for when gas prices keep changing. He says the sheriff's office goes through about 88-thousand gallons of fuel a year.

Tessa Thomas