The Seneca County Sheriff Office has been able to keep its budget cool in recent years because of ICE. The department’s piece of ICE has been getting smaller this year, however, and the budget is heating up. Seneca County Sheriff Tom Steyer met Thursday with the Seneca County Board of Commissioners. Steyer asked the board for more money to buy food for jail inmates and pay for a few repairs to equipment. The discussion turned to department payroll and projected income from the Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) program. The jail has been able to supplement department income by housing immigration detainees and receiving pay from the federal government for housing the detainees. The payments are based on the daily number of detainees housed. Adding the ICE detainees provided a way to lower the average daily cost for all inmates in the jail and keep the burden on the county’s general fund lower, Steyer said.