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Supervisor Nancy Fanden Cxyjrly
DATEI October 9., 1990
BUBJECTI EXPLORE TRIMMING THE .FOOD BUDGET IN ADULT FACILITIES
TO GENERATE FUNDS TO HELP KEEP THE GIRLS CENTER OPEN
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RECOMMENDATION:
That the Board ask the Sheriff to explore the possibility of
cutting the food budget for county inmates . If the menu
could be for a lighter breakfast, say fruit, apples,
bananas, etc. , followed by a later brunch and dinner,
perhaps $1 . 00 per day per inmate could be saved. The result
for the inmates would be less cholesterol in the diet. The
results for the county would be annual savings to keep the
Girls Center open.
BACKGROUND:
We serve over 3, 000 meals per day in our locked facilities.
Because of the increased budget crisis we must reevaluate
the business as usual routine. This suggestion is not meant
to deny inmates adequate nourishment but rather to improve
their diet by cutting out the "fat" resulting in a lower
cholesterol diet. Since the inmates are not doing physical
work (not counting exercise programs) their caloric intake
should not be as great as people working outside the jail.
Our soldiers in Saudi Arabia are living on army rations. I
believe we can make tasteful changes in our inmate diet that
will be beneficial to them and provide the money needed to
keep the Girls Center locked facility open.
The irony is that we are building a new locked facility jail
in West County and we have an existing locked facility for
Young women that we are closing. It just doesn' t make sense
to do so.
The young women desperately need a place of respite and
recovery that only the locked facility can provide. We are
talking about salvaging lives . I recently suggested using
contingency funds to keep the shelter open. Contingency
funds are used in the event of natural disaster; i.e. ,
earthquake, fires . I contend that the closing of the
shelter is a disaster that is not natural, a disaster that
we can control. Since that suggestion was met with less
than universal approval, I am proposing meal expenditure
reductions as a second option.
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CCI Sheriff-Coroner ATTESTED October 9, 1990
County Administrator + PIIii Italdielor, Clerk of the Board of
SIIIieI vlwro anll Counly Administrator
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We can turn lives around. The life of a teenage girl
should have a contingency fund: Knowing how unpopular the
mention of using. contingency funds is I am proposing an
alternate of reduced food expenditures. in county facilities.
When we serve over 3 ,000 meals a day, we are really in the
food business and as any domestic executive can tell you, we
can take another. look at our food budget. . Reductions can be
made without impairing anyone' s health. Changing to a diet
lower in fats and cholesterol will actually improve inmate
health rehabilitation, as well.