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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 05162000 - C116 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Contra FROM: PHIL BATCHELOR Costa County Administrator County DATE: May 16, 2000 SUBJECT: Fiscal Year 2000/2001 County Justice System Programs Component of State Program Realignment Specific Request(s) or Recommendation(s) & Background & Justification RECOMMENDATIONS: 1. Approve FY 2000/2001 projects required to implement Justice System Programs component of State Program Realignment as follows, subject to cancellation if not approved as part of Final FY 2000-2001 Budget. Organ iza io /Proj Amount Not to Exceed DA/Performance of AB 3121 Functions $199,697 Public Defender/Defense of,Juveniles 50,057 Probation/Home Supervision 38,860 Probation/Orin Allen Rehabilitation Youth Center 422,060 Criminal Justice/Planning, Coord. & Adminis. 20,001 Health Serv./Deten. Facil. Mental Health Serv. 75,802 Brentwood/East Contra Costa Youth & Family Serv. 42,108 BWA/Battering Abatement Training Program 12,426 YSB/West Contra Costa Youth Service Bureau 91,600 $952,611 2. Authorize the County Administrator, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County those contracts required to continue the following 2000/2001 Justice System Programs projects: Organization Amount Not to Exceed West Contra Costa Youth Service Bureau $ 91,600 Brentwood Police Department (Serves East County) 42,108 Battered Women's Alternatives '5� r. 12,426 Continued on Attachment:—x—YES Signature:- Recommendation of County Administrator Recommendation of Board Committee Approve Other Signature (s) - Action of Boar n: Approved as Recommended ager Vote of Supervisors: I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN Unanimous (Absent AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE Ayes: Noes: ) BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON DATE SHOWN. Contact: G. Roemer (335-1055) Attested: cc: CAO-,Justice System Program Phi Batchelor, Clerk of Auditor-Controller the Board of Supervisors and County Administrator L By: DEPUTY FY 99/00 County Justice System Programs Component of State Program Realignment Page 2 5/18/99 3. Direct County Administrator's Office to notify each project that final approval is contingent upon inclusion into the County's Final Adopted Budget for Fiscal Year 2000-2001. FINANCIAL IMPACT: All the above-listed projects are integral to the continued operation of the County Justice System Programs component of State Program Realignment and are also consistent with the County's approved Continuum of Care Program. The amounts reflect a continued maintenance of effort based upon approved FY 1999/2000 amounts. All of these projects will be built into the County Administrator's proposed FY 2000/2001 budget. Allof-the {Zroiects and contracts will contain a special condition that permits the elimihation or reduction of the gram in order t conform to the final adopted County budget for FY 200012001. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONIBACKGROUND: All of the above projects were designed to meet mandated and other vital County Justice System goals. The District Attorney, Public Defender and Probation Department (Home Supervision) projects all are State mandated programs related to the prosecution, adjudication and supervision of delinquent juveniles. The Orin Allen Rehabilitation Youth Center project funds approximately 20% of the Center. The East County Youth and Family Services and the West Contra Costa Youth Service Bureau both provide diversion projects to law enforcement and school districts which assist in decreasing the referrals to Juvenile Hall and Juvenile Court. Attachment 1 provides a brief summary of each projects. All of the projects are designed to provide an integrated approach to justice system processing of various types of cases, particularly juvenile cases, or to provide the system with services that ultimately would have to be provided at an increased County cost. Projects were monitored to ensure that the outcome measures of numbers of cases handled and reduced costs of the County criminal justice system were met. Four of these projects will require continuation of existing contracts with the County. All of these projects are continuing projects. So that there will be no break in services July 1, 1 am recommending that the Board of Supervisors, as it did last year, authorize the County Administrator or his designee to execute on behalf of the County those contracts for the above-listed projects. Each contract will have a termination clause that permits the County to eliminate or adjust the contract as dictated by the adopted FY 2000/2001 County Budget and the status of State Program Realignment funds. Attachment 1 SUMMARIES OF PROJECTS CONTRA COSTA COUNTY 2000/2001 JUSTICE SYSTEM PROGRAMS* pEgFOgMANCF OF AB 3121 FUNCTIONS (DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE (State Mandated) Funds the Juvenile Division which, under AB 3121, is required to be present and represent the People in all court hearings relating to delinquency cases (fitness hearings, arraignments and pre- trials, contested hearings, detention hearings and disposition hearings). DEFENSE OF JUVENILES - PUBLIC DEFENDER (State Mandated) Allows the Public Defender to handle the increased defense workload arising from AB 3121 requirements. HOME SUPERVISION - PROBATION DEPARTMENT (State Mandated) Provides supervision of juveniles (602's) at home in lieu of detention at Juvenile Hall while awaiting court disposition. Program purpose is to assure that the minors appear at court hearings, commit no new offenses and obey the conditions of release. ORIN ALLEN RE ABILITATION YOUTH CENTER - BYRON BOYS' A CH - PROBATION DEPARTMENT Subsidizes partial costs of the Youth Center, an open, non-secure treatment institution for delinquent boys committed by the Juvenile Court. Capacity is 100 beds. PLANNING, COORDINATION, EVALUATION AND ADMINISTRATION - CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY This project is designed to provide the County Administrator's Office, Justice System Programs and Dispute Resolution Advisory Groups, the Justice System Coordination Committee, and the Criminal Justice Agency Planning Board with justice planning, coordination, evaluation and administrative support services. It funds part of the CJA functions which include criminal justice coordination and planning across jurisdictional and departmental lines; grant and program administration (including Realignment Program and Dispute Resolution Program administration); funding source development; short-term studies and planning efforts. Current juvenile justice Continuum of Care planning under direction by the Board of Supervisors includes technical assistance to the Juvenile Systems Planning Advisory Committee and the Probation Department. Staff efforts include continued implementation and oversight of the Federal SafeFutures grant. DETENTION FACILITY MENT L HEALTH SERVICES - HEALTH SERVICES DEPARTMENT Provides mental health services at the Martinez Detention Facility to assist the Sheriff in inmate control and preserving safety of staff and inmates. Mental health services include evaluation, ongoing counseling, case management and discharge planning, psychiatric medication, involuntary hospitalization, and crisis intervention. Treatment services will be provided to the mentally disordered inmates in the medical module and to stabilized inmates in general living units. Mental Health staff respond to referrals to inmates by deputies and other Detention Facility staff. EAST COUNTY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES -CITY OF BRENTWOOD, ANTIOCH POLICE EPARTMENT This regional diversion project operates in the City of Brentwood, the unincorporated area of East County and the City of Antioch. The program offers diversion opportunities (community service projects, referrals to individual or family counseling, letters of apology, making restitution to victims, etc.) for misdemeanor and low-level offenders. The program is a referral source for East County police agencies in lieu of referral to Probation and the Juvenile Court. BATTERING ABATEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM - BATTERED WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES Provides treatment services to men who physically abuse their spouses. Clients are referred from law and justice agencies throughout the criminal justice process as well as from sources outside the justice system (crisis line callers, support group participants). Priority is given to offenders participating in domestic violence diversion per Penal Code Section 1000.6. /✓�` WEST CONTRA COSTA YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU PROGRAM -_WEST_CaNTRA_CQ EA YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU Provides mentoring, counseling, case management, diversion and family support services to over 1,600 youth and their families in West Contra Costa County. This project provides diversion services to West County police agencies, including the City of Richmond. The Youth Service Bureau allows police to refer delinquents to a community-based program rather than referral to Probation and the Juvenile Court. Transition services for youth returning from juvenile institutions are now part of the justice programs offered by the Youth Service Bureau. Additionally, YSB has expanded its services greatly through the Federal SafeFutures grant. Through SafeFutures, YSB has embarked on a project that links schools more closely to their communities and emphasizes parental involvement. A mentoring group for elementary school aged girls has also been started. *Projects funded previously by County Justice System Subvention Program Funds (AB 90) and now funded in part by State Program Realignment Funds (Chapter 89, Statutes of 1991-AB 1288; W&I Code Section 17602). Also includes West Contra Costa Youth Service Bureau, formerly administered by the California Youth Authority. 6/16/00