County Government

Type of County	County Owned Buildings/Property
Seventh Class County Elected, three member Board of Commissioners	Courthouse County Jail	Tunkhannock Tunkhannock
	Robinson Building (Human Services)	Eaton Township
County Seat - Tunkhannock, PA
1998 Budget
Yearly Expenses:	General Fund	$6,358,350.00

Departmental Breakdown

Department	Function	Number of Employees
Assessor's Office	Assess land and buildings	4
Auditor's Office	Audit county expenses/revenues	3
Children and Youth Services	Service to children and families	11
Commissioner's Office	Executive Offices	8
Communications	Centralized county dispatching	10
Coroner's Office	Determine cause of death	2
District Attorney	Chief prosecutor	5
Domestic Relations	Support payments	8
Jail	Incarceration of offenders	24
Judge's Chambers	Judiciary	5
Maintenance	Maintenance of buildings and grounds	6
Magistrate's Office	Pretrial hearings	7
Planning Commission	Planning/subdivision administration	3
Probation	Parole enforcement	8
Prothonotary	Legal recording for courts	4
Public Defender	Defense for those unable to afford council	2
Register and Recorder	Recorder of deeds and wills	3
Sheriff's Office	Law Enforcement	4
Tax Claim	Collection of delinquent taxes	2
Total		124

Planning Commission
Subdivision and Land Development Regulations
Zoning Regulations by municipality
Building Codes by municipality

Barracks Location: Route 6, Tunkhannock

Distance from Tunkhannock: 3 miles

Number of Officers: 20

Number of Patrol Vehicles: 11