Travis County Commissioners Court
June 12, 2007
Item 9
>>Number nine is to consider and take appropriate action on budget amendments, be transfers and discussion items.
>> it's the third paragraph of the memo.
>> we were revising the estimate that we had for out of county. And basically in April when we came and talked with you all, we used the current information that we had at that point in time. Since that time we've had, I would suggest, a considerable rise had of inmate population, about 100 and some-odd inmates. And also in April we used a bed capacity of 93%. Traditionally since 2002 we have used 92% and the sheriff's office used that general percentage. It appears that it will not be possible to achieve 93%, so we have reversed back to the 92% level. That results in higher costs because of a 92% and also because of was increase in the daily population of the year as a whole to 2720 from the 2700 that we've been talking about you last month or so.
>> so the increase in the average daily population plus a drop to 92% from 93%?
>> yes. Basically that means there will be -- we would need to send inmates out sooner because we are only using 92% of the bed capacity before we have to send. The standard is actually 90% or 10%.
>> I see. So the 92% triggers the need to send people out, that's our benchmark. I see. That makes more sense to me now.
>> I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough.
>> is this from limestone county?
>> that's the county we have a contract with. Also last week I believe you approved a contract with falls county, which is next door. It's marlin basically. And I believe there's going to be a contract with mcclennan county also sometime in the near future, which of course is waco. These are managed by the same.
>> these will be sent to limestone county?
>> yes.
>> any other questions?
>> I had --
>> limestone county's seat is grosbeck just to give you a location.
>> so on the back of the budget impact, the last sentence of the first paragraph, the jail reserve of fiscal year '08 would need to be in the range of 1,000,005 or an increase from last month's estimate. Now it make sense.
>> we're giving you a head's up here basically with this information because this is a serious increase. Actually, this morning the population was a little lower than it has been the last week or so. It was at 2704. But it's in the summer.
>> I see.
>> that's just an alert.
>> no guarantees. Let me say this, we work very closely with the sheriff's office. We will monitor this. We do every month. We will look at this every month until the budget is dropped. And when we get to September we will be looking at this on a week by week basis.
>> okay.
>> any other questions?
>> not on this item. I had another question on the paper item.
>> paper?
>> the short form copy paper budget, so we're doing a transfer. Do we have a county wide policy regarding two-sided copying? I know this sound like a nickel and diming issue. But the nickels and be dimes are added up,.
>> [one moment, please, for change in captioners] .
>> I would be thrilled to receive my backup electronically rather than in hard copy. That alone would probably safe a case of paper a month month. I'd be happy to work with anyone figuring out how to implement that.
>> any other questions? Move approval.
>> second.
>> discussion? All in favor. That passes by unanimous vote
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