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Probation Department, on behalf of the Community Corrections Partnership (CCP) Executive Committee, recommending the Board:
1) Review and accept the recommended Community Corrections (AB109) Public Safety Realignment Budget and related Implementation Plan for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25, in the amount of $7,892,418;
2) Review and approve the recommended items to fund from the Board of State and Community Corrections Planning and Training Grant Programs, referred to as the “Community Corrections Planning and Training Budget for FY 2024-25,” in the amount of $240,500; and
3) Approve the attached FY 2023-24 Budget Transfer increasing revenues and expenditures by $186,000. (4/5 vote required)
A 4/5 vote would be required to not approve the budget(s) as recommended by the CCP.
FUNDING: California State Budget FY 2024-25, Community Corrections Sub-account within the Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 and Budget Act of 2023.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
AB109 Public Safety Realignment Budget
AB109, titled "2011 Realignment Legislation Addressing Public Safety," was signed by Governor Brown on April 4, 2011. Since 2011, the El Dorado County CCP Executive Committee, a legislatively established planning committee for local criminal justice realignment, has met and established annual plans and annual realignment budgets for review by the Board of Supervisors. Absent a 4/5 vote rejecting the proposed budget, it is considered adopted. The legislation directs that the Chief Probation Officer is the Chair of the CCP for each County.
The Chief Probation Officer called the CCP into public session (Meeting) on February 16, 2024. The CCP Executive Committee voted by a majority vote, agenda item 24-0352, to approve the AB109 Budget for FY 2024-25 for $7,892,418.
The continued goal of the Public Safety Realignment Implementation Plan is to ensure offender accountability and public safety through treatment, community supervision, alternatives to custody, and detention services. The Public Safety Realignment Implementation Plan for FY 2024-25 includes a range of services from secure custody and enforcement through treatment and education including the Community Corrections Center (CCC) under the direction of the Chief Probation Officer and partner agencies.
On August 2, 2016, with Legistar file 16-0607, the Board accepted the CCP Executive Committee approved FY 2016-17 budget with a 13% indirect cost recovery rate for Probation and the Sheriff's Office. In the following fiscal years, the budget continued to include a 13% indirect cost recovery rate for Probation and the Sheriff's Office. For FY 2024-25, the Chief Probation Officer proposed and the CCP Executive Committee approved the full indirect cost recovery rate for Probation (35.06%) and the Sheriff's Office (29.46%) to assist the County in closing the budget gap.
AB109 Planning and Implementation Budget
The Budget Act of 2024 will appropriate funds through the Board of State and Community Corrections to fund the local AB109 Planning and Training Budget for FY 2024-25. On February 16, 2024, the CCP Executive Committee approved the Planning and Training budget items for FY 2024-25 in the amount of $240,500 with file item 24-0353. These funds continue to provide each partner agency the necessary resources to obtain training specific to improving outcomes in the adult criminal justice system in the realignment era; provide curriculum for direct services for clientele participating in cognitive-behavioral change programming; provide necessary resources for obtaining direct services curriculum; training materials for alcohol, drug, and mental health programming; provide a resource to continue and create new incentive programs that reinforce pro-social behavior exhibited by justice-involved individuals; and provide a necessary resource to continue professional services for data collection, analysis, and to support the efforts for making future data-driven decisions.
Additionally, at the Meeting, the CCP Executive Committee discussed and approved additional expenditures for FY 2023-24 in the amounts of: $180,000 for Probation for electronic monitoring and domestic violence training and $6,000 to the Alternate Public Defender for training (Agenda Item 23-1974). A budget transfer is necessary to increase revenues and expenditures in the Special Revenue Fund by $186,000 and decrease contingency by $186,000, and also to increase the revenue and expenditures for the approved expenditures.
ALTERNATIVES
By statute, the Board has the authority by 4/5 vote to reject the budget and plan, as approved by the CCP, and direct the CCP to return with a revised budget and plan for consideration. Absent this direction, the plan is considered adopted by the Board as recommended.
PRIOR BOARD ACTION
08/02/2016
OTHER DEPARTMENT / AGENCY INVOLVEMENT
Chief Administrative Office, Superior Court, Public Defender, District Attorney, Sheriff’s Office, Health & Human Services Agency, County Office of Education, and the Cities of Placerville and South Lake Tahoe Police Departments
CAO RECOMMENDATION
Approve as recommended.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
No fiscal impact or change to Net County Cost as funding and expenditures for the FY 2024-25 AB109 Public Safety Realignment Budget and the FY 2024-25 Community Corrections Planning and Training Budget have been included in the Recommended Budget for FY 2024-25. The FY 2023-24 budget transfer includes revenue and expenditures for the Community Corrections Sub-account and the relevant operating accounts with no impact to Net County Cost.
CLERK OF THE BOARD FOLLOW UP ACTIONS
The Clerk of the Board will obtain the Chair’s signature on the original budget transfer and will forward the budget transfer to the Auditor/Controller for processing.
STRATEGIC PLAN COMPONENT
N/A
CONTACT
Chief Probation Officer Brian Richart, CCP Chair