DATE: January 10, 2017
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Rick Chavez, Chief Probation Officer
SUBJECT: Second Amendment to Agreement # 16-030 with the City of Fresno to assign a Police Sergeant and two additional Police Officers to the Public Safety Realignment Act (AB 109) Adult Compliance Team
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Second Amendment to Agreement # 16-030 with the City of Fresno, adding two additional sworn City of Fresno Police Officers and one sworn City of Fresno Police Sergeant to the Adult Compliance Team, effective upon execution through June 30, 2017, and increasing the contract maximum by $550,493 to a total of $928,018.
REPORT
There is no Net County Cost associated with the recommended action, which will amend the agreement with the City of Fresno to provide two additional sworn Police Officers and one Police Sergeant to participate as members of the Adult Compliance Team (ACT), as authorized by the approved Community Corrections Partnership (CCP) Plan.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
If the recommended action is not approved, the ACT would not include two additional Police Officers and a Police Sergeant from the City of Fresno.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. The cost associated with the two additional ACT Officer positions is $357,374 and $193,119 for the Sergeant position. With the approval of the recommended action, the total contract amount will be $928,018, which will be funded with Public Safety Realignment (AB 109) funds received from the State of California. Sufficient appropriations and estimated revenues are included in Probation’s FY 2016-17 Adopted Budget Org 3430.
DISCUSSION:
The Public Safety Realignment Act (AB 109) was signed into law on April 5, 2011 and went into effect on October 1, 2011. AB 109 transferred responsibility for housing/supervising of specified inmates and parolees from the California Department of Corrections to counties. In accordance with AB 109/AB 117, the County created a CCP Executive Committee and developed an implementation plan that will enable the County to meet the goals of the Public Safety Realignment Act. This implementation plan was approved by the CCP Executive Committee and your Board in 2011 and there have been four updates to the CCP plan since it was initially approved.
The ACT currently comprises sworn officers from the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department, the Fresno Police Department, the Clovis Police Department, the Selma Police Department, the Reedley Police Department, the Kingsburg Police Department, the Kerman Police Department, the Fresno County Probation Department, and two Investigators from the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office. It should be noted the agreements with the Cities of Kingsburg and Kerman for one ACT Officer each and an amendment with the City of Clovis for an additional ACT Officer were approved by your Board November 15, 2016. The purpose of the ACT is to add an additional layer of offender supervision and public safety by working as a cooperative unit capable of addressing public safety concerns and issues facing local law enforcement in Fresno County. The ACT team enforces conditions of probation, conducts compliance and non-compliance searches of AB 109 probationers who are under the supervision of the Fresno County Probation Department and provides immediate response to crisis situations. In addition, ACT can provide surveillance and warrant sweeps in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies.
If the recommended action is approved, the ACT would include an additional two sworn City of Fresno Police Officers and one sworn City of Fresno Police Sergeant from the City of Fresno. On July 14, 2016, the CCP Executive Committee approved the additional ACT positions for the City of Fresno.
REFERENCE MATERIAL:
BAI #41 - June 21, 2016
BAI #31 - January 26, 2016
BAI #8 - September 13, 2011
ATTACHMENTS INCLUDED AND/OR ON FILE:
On file with Clerk - Second Amendment to Agreement with City of Fresno
CAO ANALYST:
Samantha Buck