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FROM: RICHARD K. RAINEY, Sheriff-Coroner Cmtra
DATE'. Jan ua ry,.7., 1991 (Jo�'*
SUBJECT: CONTRACT WITH-RACIFIC TELEPHONE COMPANY,
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SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS) Bc BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATiON
I . RECOMMENDED, ACTION:
Approve and authorize Sheri ff-Coroner to execute, on behalf of. the county Inmate Wel fare
Fund a three-year contract with the Pacific Telephone Company for a. 21 % 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 'un'der the, terms of this proposed contract, :
the County. Inmate Welfare Fund will receive approximatel-y $640,627 annually.
III . REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION
Under the terms of this proposed contract, Pacific Telephone will continue to install'and
maintain inmate-phones, free of charge;,: in all- four detention facilities.
SB 1115; .which was signed by `the Governor in. October 1987 and went into effect January .l
1988, specifies that 'any and all Group Rate Commission on telephones used.by county, jail
inmates must be paid into the county'sInmate 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. Ani:tem-
ized report .of ,such expenditures .I 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 substantially increase the total Group Rate
Commission currently being paid by Pacific Telephone to the county Inmate Welfare Fund.
This will enable the IWF to fund even more programs for .our growing jail population.
IV HISTORY
In August. 1986 Pacific Telephone began paying the county Inmate Welfare Fund a Group Rate
Commission of 6% on inmate tele phones •in the three adult. detention facilities . In May 1987,
arbitrarily, without consultation or prior notice, PacificTelephone reduced its Group Rate .
''Commission to a flat'rate of $15 per telephone, or approximately 1%. After protests by the
California Sheriffs' Assc. and the California Jail Programs Assc, and to respond to competition
from other vendors, Pacific Telephone reinstated the.6% Group Rate. Commission effective
October 1 1987andon January, I '1988 we signed a three year contract, for a 16% Group Rate
Commission. That contract .expi.red 1 -1 -91 . The proposed.-.new contract is, for a 21 % commission.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT" ._. YES _SIGNATURE';
RECOMMENDATION OF' COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITT
APPROVE - OTHER
SIGNATUREISI:
ACTION OF -BOARD ON FES_ 5, V91 A PROVED .AS RECCMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
YY S HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS 1S A TRUE
/' 'UNANIMOUS (ABSENT } AND CORRECT COPY OF AN.•ACTION TAKEN
AYES: kOES: AND`ENTERED ON THE. MINUTES OF THE BOARD
. ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE Si�iOWN.
CC: CAO--Justice Systems, ATTESTED _ FEB 5 (I, I
..Sheriff-Coroner - - ----__ __
PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE.BOARD OF
Peter Christiansen (Martinez SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Detention Facility)
BY + ,DEPUTY
M382/7-83