DATE: March 28, 2023
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Chief Haynes, Deputy Probation Officer
SUBJECT: Revenue Agreement with Merced County
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Revenue Agreement with Merced County to house youth from Merced County at the Juvenile Justice Campus for a daily rate of $380 per youth, effective March 28, 2023 through June 30, 2024.
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 March 28, 2023 through June 30, 2024. 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 conditionally 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. Approval of the recommended action will authorize the Chairman to execute a revenue agreement with Merced 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 an agreement with Merced County to accept their youth, who previously would have been housed at the DJJ, into the JJC.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no Net County Cost associated with the recommended action, as this is a revenue agreement for services provided by the County. The recommended action will allow Merced County to send and the Department to receive youth into the JJC.
The Department determined a daily rate of $380 per youth to charge other ...
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