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2 <br />Monitoring Initiative grant funds to four more counties - Orange, Alamance, Chatham, <br />and Rockingham - to expand the program to those areas. For each county, grant funding <br />will cover the cost of hiring one full-time equivalent Deputy (salary, benefits, training, <br />supplies, and personal computer) in addition to contractual costs of monitoring the <br />offenders. <br />Each site plans to hire one law enforcement officer to actively monitor twenty individuals <br />on pre-trial release. In addition to creating greater security for. the victim, sentencing the <br />offender to electronic monitoring instead of active jail time will free up jail space. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The grant period covers two years and totals $152,085 for Orange <br />County. Costs covered include salary and benefit costs of the newly authorized Deputy <br />Sheriff position, day-to-day operations and contractual costs of offender monitoring, and <br />computer equipment. It is important to note that the Department of Crime Control and <br />Public Safety has appropriated funding for year one of the grant ($77,235) and plans to <br />hold, in reserve, the second year's grant funds ($74,850) contingent upon the successful <br />completion of the first year grant and timely submission of all required reports. It is <br />important to note that, as a condition of the grant, beginning in fiscal year 2009-10, <br />funding for the program is the sole responsibility of Orange County, and it is staff's <br />understanding that the County must continually fund the position. <br />The projected daily cost of housing one inmate in the Orange County Jail averages $38 or <br />$13,870 per year. Based on twenty offenders being monitored electronically and not <br />housed in the Jail, the annual estimated cost avoided totals $277,400. <br />In addition, the Courts plan to assess a $10 per day fee to the offender (paid to the <br />Sheriff's Department) to recoup some portion of the costs associated with this program. <br />Annual revenues anticipated through this fee totals $73,000 assuming twenty offenders <br />monitored 365 days per year. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board: <br />1. Accept the two-year Law Enforcement Electronic Monitoring Initiative Grant; <br />2. Authorize one full-time equivalent Deputy Sheriff position, beginning February 7, <br />2007, for one-year. Continuation of the position would be contingent upon <br />continuation of grant funding in year two of the grant; <br />3. Agree to fund the authorized new position and program, beginning in fiscal year <br />2009-10, should the State find the first year of the program successful and <br />appropriates the second year of the grant funds.