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Criminal Justice Budget Overview County Executive FY08 Recommended Operating and Capital Budgets. Presentation to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Commission March 22, 2007 www.montgomerycountymd.gov. How the Budget is Funded-FY08. Other Taxes $174.3 million 4.2%.
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Criminal Justice Budget OverviewCounty Executive FY08 Recommended Operating and Capital Budgets Presentation to the Criminal Justice Coordinating CommissionMarch 22, 2007 www.montgomerycountymd.gov
How the Budget is Funded-FY08 Other Taxes$174.3 million 4.2% User Charges & Licenses$275.3 million 6.6% Intergovernmental$704.4 million 17.0% Transfer & Recordation Taxes $225.7 million 5.5% Fines & Misc.$202.6 million 4.9% Prior Year Reserves $309.3 million 7.5% Net Transfers -$0.1 million 0.0% Income Tax $1,079.4 million 26.1% Property Tax $1,164.3 million 28.2% Total Resources: $4,371.7 million
How the Money is Spent-FY08 Public Works and Trans$315.1 million 7.6% General Govt$366.2 million 8.8% Librarires, Culture and Recreation$91.0 million 2.2% Debt Service$239.9 million 5.8% Montgomery County Public Schools$1,968.8 million 47.6% HHS $282.2 million 6.8% Public Safety $528.5 million 12.8% Park and Planning$115.8 million 2.8% Montgomery College$232.2 million 5.6% Total Expenditures = $4,140.7 Million
YOUTH, GANG, AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION TOTAL ADDITIONAL FUNDS IN FY08: $3.9 million POLICE • Add 6 Police Officers for the centralized Gang Task Force • Increase Police overtime hours, to respond to disruptive behavior incidents occurring in public libraries. STATES ATTORNEY • Add 2 Assistant State Attorneys to prosecute gang related crimes. HHS • Maintain street outreach workers to provide services to gang involved youth in underserved parts of the county. • Maintain funding for Identity to continue a Gang Prevention Program to reach at-risk Latino youth in middle and high school and their families. • Annualize personnel and operating costs for the Northwood High School Wellness Center to provide comprehensive and collaborative health and service strategies to reduce high risk behaviors. • Added Federal grant funding to establish an additional High School Wellness Center in FY08. • Maintain funding for the Crossroads Youth Opportunities Center, a joint effort with Prince George’s County. • Maintain funding for the Youth Violence Prevention Coordinator.
YOUTH, GANG, AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION HHS Continued • Add a Intervention program to provide support to gang members exiting gangs - such as emergency transportation, tangible aid, lodging, and relocation assistance (grant funded). • Add a Youth Diversion Initiative to provide training, mentoring, apprenticeships, job coaching, and employment (grant funded). • Add a Wrap Around Services consisting of intensive service and care coordination for youth who are gang involved or at risk of gang involvement in the Germantown, Wheaton, and Silver Spring areas. • Add outreach services for girls involved in gang activity or at risk of involvement with gangs. RECREATION • fully funds three Sports Academies located at Wheaton, Springbrook, and Paint Branch High Schools that were added mid-year in FY07 ($914,870). • Add a Sports Academy to be located UpCounty. • $320,000 for immediate improvements to the five neighborhood recreation centers: Scotland, Ross Boddy, Clara Barton, Good Hope, and Plum Gar • one-time funding to conduct a feasibility study for multi-purpose youth centers. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT • A partnership program between DED, Corrections, Juvenile Services, and HHS, to provide summer jobs for 40 youth in Germantown, Wheaton, and Silver Spring
Departmental Highlights Police • Provide funds for 1,200 sworn and 598 non-sworn positions; an increase of 38 sworn and five non-sworn positions for a total increase of 43. • Provide funds to conduct two Police Officer Candidate recruit classes - 35 candidates for the July 2007 class and 62 candidates for the January 2008 class. • Continue Year Three of the Police Chief's Staffing Plan with the addition of 30 Patrol Officers to be deployed to the six Police District Stations. Correction and Rehabilitation • Increase funding of $271,400 for medical expenses to bring the budgeted amount in line with the prior years actual expenditures. • Open an additional housing unit at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility (MCCF) and add eleven correctional officers and one correctional specialist position in response to the inmate population increase. • Add one correctional specialist in Pre-Trial Services to review pre-trial cases for community supervision eligibility.
Departmental Highlights Sheriff • Add two lieutenants for supervision of courtroom and courthouse security States Attorney • Add an Assistant State's Attorney and a Victim Witness Coordinator to prosecute internet crimes against children • Replace grant funding for a field community prosecutor to prosecute criminal cases • Provide Drug Enforcement Forfeiture Funds (DEFF) for an Assistant State's Attorney and administrative support to prosecute civil forfeiture cases • Provide an Assistant State's Attorney to serve as an instructor on constitutional and criminal issues for Police Officers at the Public Safety Training Academy Circuit Court • Develop educational programs for court staff and victims of domestic violence • Implement an electronic document imaging system to store and retrieve documents. • Continue to close all civil, criminal, juvenile, and domestic relations cases at or above Statewide Standards
Departmental Highlights Technology • Provide funding for the Integrated Justice Information System (IJIS) project, which includes • one position to support the State's Attorney's Office Case Management System (SAO CMS) • one position along with funding for operational support for the Corrections and Rehabilitation Information Management System (CRIMS). Criminal Justice Coordinating Commission • Create a new manager position in the Office of the County Executive to oversee criminal justice issues.
FY08 Capital Budget Department of Police • 1st District Police Station (No. 470703) - $1,264,000 • 2nd District Police Station (No. 470702) - $1,261,000 • 3rd District Police Station (No. 470302) - $1,205,000 • 6th District Police Station (No. 470301) - $18,597,000 • Animal Shelter (No. 470400) - $13,154,000 • Outdoor Firearms Training Center (No. 470701) $635,000 • PSTA Academic Building Complex (No. 479909) - $24,906,000 • Vehicle Recovery Facility (No. 470102) $5,020,000 Department of Correction and Rehabilitation • Detention Center Reuse (No. 429755) - $11,138,000 Circuit Court • Judicial Court Annex (No. 100300) - $30,833,000