Drafter
Clerk 07/12/2004
Title
A MOTION directing the executive and the county's criminal justice agencies to develop priorities, state legislative agendas, financial plans and budgets that sustain the positive results of Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan implementation.
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WHEREAS, in June 2000, the council adopted the Phase II Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan that recommended making system changes that would eliminate the need to build eighty new juvenile detention beds at a cost of at least $6.8 million plus annual operational costs in the millions of dollars, and
WHEREAS, most of the system efficiencies and alternative intervention and prevention strategies recommended in the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan have been implemented, and
WHEREAS, the implementation of the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan recommendations has not only eliminated the need to build new detention beds but has resulted in an over-forty-percent reduction in the use of secure detention for juveniles and a thirty percent reduction in community supervision caseloads, and
WHEREAS, the reductions in secure detention and community supervision have resulted in an annual operational savings of over $3 million of current expense funding for detention and court services as well as other savings for the prosecuting attorney and public defense, and
WHEREAS, many of the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan initiatives for intervention and prevention alternatives have been funded with one-time grants or other time-limited sources of funding rather than from operational savings, and
WHEREAS, Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan savings have helped reduce the impact of the county's current expense budget deficit, thus benefiting all county criminal justice agencies and other current expense departments, and
WHEREAS the lack of sustained funding for most of the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan intervention and prevention initiatives...

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