DATE: November 5, 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
Conduct second hearing and adopt an Ordinance amending the County of Fresno Master Schedule of Fees, Charges and Recovered Costs Ordinance by amending Subsection 1815 - Daily Rate of Section 1800 - Probation, and waive the reading of the proposed Ordinance in its entirety.
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:
On October 22, 2024, your Board conducted the first hearing to amend the MSF subsection 1815-Daily Rate of section 1800. The new daily rate was recommended at $420 per youth per day.
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 grant funding to the County for the transfer of jurisdiction of these high-risk youth. The County was also awarded funding from the BSCC in the amount of $1 mi...
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