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Receive Staff Report and Discuss Second Chance Program - AB1056 (2015/2016): The Safe Neighborhoods and School Act. The BSCC has been working on the implementation of AB 1056. Below is a brief update on the process.
1.) BSCC Executive Steering Committee (ESC) is being finalized. This committee will be charged with specified tasks, including the development of Requests for Proposals to seek applications for grant funds. ESCs submit findings and grant award recommendations to the BSCC Board for final disposition.
2.) Tentative timeline of RFP Release Fall 2016
3.) Tentative timeline of RFP Award Spring 2017
4.) Any Public Agency - lead applicant
5.) BSCC will be hosting a regional meeting in Sacramento around May or June 2016
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On January 7, 2016 the Governor’s Budget included an estimate of state’s first-year savings resulting from the implementation of Proposition 47 at $29.3 million. Sixty-five percent of that (just over $19 million) will be allocated to the BSCC to be distributed as recidivism-reduction grants. After the first year, implementation costs, such as the court hearings associated with Prop. 47 sentence reductions, will decrease, and the amount that will go in to the recidivism-reduction grants administered by BSCC will increase. The Governor’s Budget includes additional estimates:
Second year savings to BSCC: $26.3 million
Ongoing savings to BSCC: $37.4 million annually
Assembly Bill No. 1056, Chapter 438 (2015/2016) partial Legislative Counsel's Digest
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1056
This bill would also require the board to administer a competitive grant program that focuses on community-based solutions for reducing recidivism. The bill would establish minimum criteria for the grant program and would require the board to establish an executive steering committee, as specified, to make recommendations regarding the design, efficacy, and viability of proposals and to m...
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