DATE: July 9, 2024
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Kirk Haynes, Chief Probation Officer
SUBJECT: Retroactive Revenue Agreement with Tulare County
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a retroactive Revenue Agreement with Tulare County to house detained youth from Tulare County at the Juvenile Justice Campus for a daily rate of $380 per detained youth, not to exceed five consecutive years, which includes a three-year base contract and two optional one-year extensions, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2029.
REPORT
There is no Net County Cost associated with the recommended action, as this is a revenue agreement for services provided by the County, effective retroactive to July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2029. In 2020, the Governor signed Senate Bill (SB) 823 into law, which phases in the closure of the California Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) and realigns these youth to their local counties. The State allocated block grant funding to the County, and the County has also been awarded grant funding in the amount of $152,571 for an all-county distribution and $1 million in funding to create a regional hub for the County to accept youth from Central Valley counties. As recommended by your Board, the Department held a meet and confer with Unit 11 representatives on June 28, 2024, to discuss the potential labor impacts of the recommended agreement. Approval of the recommended action will authorize the Chairman to execute a retroactive revenue agreement with Tulare County to accept their youth, who previously would have been housed at the DJJ, into the Juvenile Justice Campus (JJC). This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
If the recommended action is not approved, the Department would not be able to comply with the plans submitted for the regional hub funding and would not be able to enter into a retroactive agreement with Tulare County to accept their youth into the JJC, who previously would have bee...
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