DATE: October 22, 2024
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Kirk Haynes, Chief Probation Officer
SUBJECT: Amendment to Master Schedule of Fees - Probation Department
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
1. Conduct first hearing to amend the County of Fresno Master Schedule of Fees, Charges and Recovered Costs Ordinance by amending Subsection 1815 - Daily Rate of Section 1800 - Probation, waive the reading of the proposed Ordinance in its entirety, and set second hearing of the proposed Ordinance, including its requested Board adoption, for November 5, 2024;
2. Designate County Counsel to prepare a fair and adequate summary of the proposed Ordinance; and
3. Direct the Clerk of the Board to post and publish the required summary of the proposed Ordinance in accordance with Government Code Section 25124(b)(1).
REPORT
Approval of the recommended actions would revise the existing Master Schedule of Fees (MSF), Charges, and Recovered Costs based on the Department's costs for FY 2024-25. The recommended amendment to Subsection 1815-Daily Rate will update the current rate to house youth from other counties at the Juvenile Justice Campus (JJC), which will allow the Probation Department to charge sending counties a daily rate of $420 per youth to be housed at the JJC per day. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
Your Board may direct staff to use the current fee or propose an alternative fee, which may not recover 100% of costs.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the recommended actions. It is anticipated that with the updated proposed daily rate of $420 per youth per day, the Probation Department will ensure full recovery of the cost to house other counties' youth at the JJC.
DISCUSSION:
SB 823 transfers responsibility for the custody, care, and supervision of high-risk youth from the DJJ to the local county jurisdiction and established the Juvenile Justice Realignment Block Grant (JJRBG) program, which allocated block gr...
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