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Deevy Holcomb, Director
Trevor Stephens, Business Manager
Sonya Littledeer-Evans, Deputy Director
Tanner Wark, Deputy Director
▪FY23-24 Proposed Budget Presentation
Budget Committee Meeting | May 23, 2023
Department Overview:
Two Divisions
•Juvenile Community Justice
•Adult Parole and Probation
Mission
Repair harm, reduce risk, create
opportunity.
Protect the public, repair harm,
hold clients accountable, and
facilitate pro-social thinking.
Juvenile Accomplishments:
•Maintained public safety, victim reparation, risk reduction and client behavior change in the face of a dynamic economic, public health and public safety outlook.
•70% of young people paid their entire restitution obligation
•78% of young people completed their community service
obligations (up from 69% the prior year)
•Partnerships with stakeholders and community partners
•Schools
•Community-based organizations
•Innovate and Engage
•Workgroups
FY 23-24 Juvenile Budget Details
•4.1% increase in general fund transfer from FY 2023.
•Small reductions in state grant funding.
•Strong FY 2023 ending year balance projected due to personnel cost savings
23-24 RESOURCES
FY 23-24 Juvenile Budget Details
•Shared staff between adult and juvenile returned to 100% juvenile FTE.
•Detention security capital upgrade project.
•Gate upgrade project as part of larger public safety campus.
23-24 REQUIREMENTS
FY 23-24 Juvenile Fiscal Issues
•Continued specialized detention upgrades due to an aging building and facility.
•County’s statutory obligations and relationship to General Fund
•Retirement wave expected +/-2025-2028
•Stable at this time
•Increasing department
health insurance costs
Short-term Fiscal Issues Long-term Fiscal Issues
Current Challenges and Future Initiatives
•Juvenile administrative space utility and upgrade
•Broader public safety campus
•Effective substance use disorder treatment for justice-involved young people
•Detention facility staffing
•Shift work
•Cost of living
•Effective recruitment,
onboarding, training and
retention strategies
Challenges Future Initiatives
Adult Accomplishments
•Maintained public safety, victim reparation, risk reduction and client behavior change in the face of a dynamic economic, public health and public safety outlook.
•87% receive comprehensive risk and needs assessment within 60
days of admission.
•Sustained 16% reduction in prison usage either decreasing or neutral impact on recidivism.
•Partnerships with stakeholders and community partners
•Community Conversation
•Community-based Organizations
•District Attorney’s Office and Circuit Court
•Innovate and Engage
•National Institute Corrections Technical Assistance
•Nimble/flexible human resource management
FY 23-24 Adult Budget Details
•Grant in Aid reduction.
•Reserve for future
expenditures.
•Same general fund request
to support unsupervised
Misdemeanors.
23-24 RESOURCES
FY 23-24 Adult Details
•Personnel up 4% shifted
some shared staff back to
Juvenile.
•Reduced materials and
services by 14%.
•No capital projects on the
forefront.
23-24 REQUIREMENTS
FY 23-24 Adult Fiscal Issues
•Current service level concerns
FY26 and beyond without
significant shift
•More with less
•Diversify revenue and partner
to accomplish goals
•FY 23-25 Biennial revenue
forecast
•Spending down Reserves
•Increasing departmental
health insurance costs
Short-term Fiscal Issues Long-term Fiscal Issues
Current Challenges and Future Initiatives
•Future funding opportunities
•Responding to changing
county demographics and
needs -Gender and Culture
•Nimble and flexible staffing
structures
•Volatile legal, administrative
and social expectations of
the field
•Balancing caseload sizes for
optimal behavior change
•Affordable housing for
justice involved individuals
Challenges Future Initiatives
FY 23-24 Special Requests
•No special requests at this time.
Thank you!