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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCommunity JusticeCommunity Justice 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!