WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners are expected today to pass contracts with nine area school districts that use the sheriff’s office to provide school resource officers to them at a combined cost of $497,857.02.

Five of the districts — Joseph Badger in Kinsman, Mathews in Vienna, Southington, Bloomfield-Mesopotamia and Trumbull Career & Technical Center in Champion — are paying a base pay per officer of $79,657.12 plus a 5% administrative fee of $3,982.86.

Four school districts — Bristol, Champion, Newton Falls Exempted Village and John F. Kennedy — are paying the deputy base pay of $79,675.12, but not the administrative fee.

Mark Manning, the sheriff’s office chief financial officer, said the four districts paying only the base pay have been allowed to do so this year because the

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