HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 02021988 - 1.47 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Richard K. Rainey, Sheriff-Coroner Contra
Costa
DATE: January 5, 1988 Count/
SUBJECT: CONTRACT WITH PACIFIC TELEPHONE COMPANY
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I . RECOMMENDED ACTION
Approve and authorize Sheriff-Coroner to execute, on behalf of the County Inmate Welfare
Fund, a three-year contract with the Pacific Telephone Company for a 16% Group Rate Com-
mission on all telephones used by inmates in the county adult detention facilities.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT
The Pacific Telephone Company estimates that under the terms of this proposed contract
the County Inmate Welfare Fund will receive approximately $162,000 annually. If the
inmate population increases, as it is expected to do, and additional inmate telephones
are installed, which Pacific Telephone under the terms of this proposed contract agrees
to provide on demand at no'cost to us, then this amount will increase.
III . REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION
Under the terms of this proposed contract, Pacific Telephone will continue to install
and maintain inmate phones, free of charge.
SB 1115, which was signed by the Governor in October 1987 and went into effect January 1 ,
1988, specifies that any and all Group Rate Commissions on telephones used by county jail
inmates must be paid into the county's Inmate Welfare Fund.
Money in the County Inmate Welfare Fund is expended solely for the benefit, education and
welfare of the inmates confined within the county's adult detention facilities. An item-
ized report of such expenditures is submitted annually to the Board of Supervisors and
includes such items as recreational equipment, library books, chaplain-interns, Friends
Outside services, transportation home for indigent inmates upon release, educational video
tapes, etc. These items are important to the inmates and to the operation of our adult
detention facilities and would have to be provided out of county funds if it were not for
the County Inmate Welfare Fund.
The execution of this proposed contract would increase at least 2 2/3 times the total
Group Rate Commission currently being paid by Pacific Telephone to the County Inmate
Welfare Fund and more than double the total amount of revenue generated by the County's
Inmate Welfare Fund each year. This will enable the IWF to fund even more services to
our rapidly growing jail inmate population.
IV. HISTORY
In August 1986 Pacific Telephone began paying the County Inmate Welfare Fund a Group Rate
Commission of 6% on inmate telephones in the three county adult detention facilities. In
May 1987, arbitrarily, without counsultation or prior notice, Pacific Telephone reduced
its Group Rate Commission to a flat rate of $15 per telephone or approximately 1 %.
After protests by the California Sheryffs', 'Assc. and the California Jail Programs Assc. and
to respond to competition from other vendors, Pacific Telep ne reinstated the 6% Group
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: XX YES SIGNATURE: /1
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMME DATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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CC: Sheriff-Coroner ATTESTED FEB 2 1988
CAO-Justice System Programs Phil Batchelor, Cleric of the Board of y
Supervisors and County Administrator
M382/7-83 BY ���[/� DEPUTY
Aboard of Supervisors. -2- 1 -5=88
Contract With Pacific Telephone Company, cont' d:
Rate Commission effective October 1 , 1987 and shortly afterward announced
that beginning January 1 , 1988, we could chose between either a 10% Group Rate
Commission or 1.6% if we were willing to sign a three year contract.