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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />o Reduction of $9,000 to Remove Jury Master List which is Funded Every <br />Other Year <br />Criminal Justice Resource Department — page 122 <br />• Total expenditure budget - $605,329 <br />• Department Added Program Areas Last Fiscal Year <br />• Administrative Assistant <br />• Contract for Jail Psychiatry <br />• Five Global Positioning System (GPS) Units for Pretrial Electronic <br />Monitoring <br />• Misdemeanor Diversion Program Coordinator <br />• Mental Health Liaison for Court Involved Youth <br />• Department Continuation Budget Funded Using Alcohol Beverage Control <br />(ABC) Funds <br />■ Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Board funds ($444,328 of $550,000) <br />Mental health maintenance of effort (MOE) funds ($128,500) <br />Criminal Justice Resource Department — page 122 <br />o FY2018 -19 Recommendations — Contingent on Outside Funding <br />• Add 0.5 FTE Family Treatment Court Case Manager - $34,486 (ABC) <br />❖ ABC Board has Approved $35,000 <br />• Add Electronic Monitoring Funding for Five Units - $15,000 (ABC) <br />❖ No Outside Funding Secured; Budget Amendment to be <br />Proposed <br />■ Add Hours for Jail Psychiatry - $5,000 (Mental Health MOE) <br />❖ MOE Funds are Encumbered <br />o CJRD Expansion and Remodeling - $275,000 (CIP page 31) <br />• Gateway Building or 1954 Courthouse - $240,000 <br />• Dry Sprinkler System for Register of Deeds - $35,000 <br />Chair Dorosin asked if the decision is made to go with the courthouse, rather than the <br />Gateway building, what would happen to the $35,000 for the sprinkler system. <br />Travis Myren said it would go to a different project, as these would no longer be <br />physically co- located. <br />Chair Dorosin asked if the $35,000 was just in there for the co- location. <br />Travis Myren said yes. He resumed the presentation: <br />Diversion Outcomes on Detention Population - graph -page 10 slide <br />Caitlin Fenhagen, Criminal Justice Resource Director, said she attributes these positive <br />outcomes to the whole court system, court stakeholders, and law enforcement; not just her <br />department. <br />Commissioner Jacobs said John Roberts sent an email to the Board about allegations of <br />ADA violations at one of the courthouses. <br />John Roberts said the allegation referred to the old courthouse, and the complaint was <br />filed with the Clerk of Courts, and is not a formal legal complaint yet. <br />Chair Dorosin thanked Caitlin Fenhagen and her staff for their work with the Criminal <br />Justice Resource Department, and commended the good work being done. He said he wanted <br />to extend the County's appreciation. <br />Caitlin Fenhagen said many challenges remain, and in the future her department will be <br />looking to divert persons completely from the jail. She said the next step is to look toward law <br />