The NORCOR budget committee has approved a fiscal plan for 2019-20 that includes a 9.7% contribution increase from the four participating counties.  That’s the number budget-strapped Hood River County had indicated earlier in the month it was willing to do, and Wasco, Sherman, and Gilliam counties are agreeing to do the same, but below a proposed 18.4% increase jail officials sought after seeing no increases in the last four years.  Wasco County Sheriff Lane Magill says the committee-approved increase will allow the jail to maintain its current operations and gives them a little more for some of the jail’s programming.  The budget will go to the NORCOR board for approval at a meeting in June.