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3 <br /> <br />o 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 />o 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 /> <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 /> <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 /> <br />Diversion Outcomes on Detention Population-graph-page 10 slide <br /> <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 />enforcement assisted diversion, and possibly a diversion facility. She said the mental health <br />work in the jails, and the peer support work in the detention center now will start to bare fruit <br />with people in the community frequently seen at the detention center. She commended law <br />enforcement for its willingness to discuss diversionary programming.