County Council - Regular Meeting

Okay, it's 12 o'clock.

It's June 5, 2026. We're going to have a meeting on any communications advice to the board. I'm going to forward it to all of you. About a week ago, we were on this thing out there. First item on the agenda, routine matters. and whether there was approval of the minutes of the meeting at the start of March 6th, 2026. Those minutes were also emailed to everyone if they're also at the table there. I would entertain a motion to move those minutes. So moved. Moved by Mike. Second. Is there a second? Seconded by Tony. Any questions or discussions about those minutes? There being none, Say those in favor of approval say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

And then for CTP, which is the Community Transition Program for DOC, it was $35,350. And then some numbers that we've been asked to present. So pretrial assessments that solely Community Corrections has done this year, the majority of them being our two case managers, and I've done some, is 127 assessments. We've gone to the jail to two. So we do those on any new arrests, new charges, and then submit them to the judges to review for bond as well as the prosecutors. So far on drug screens this year, we've done 1,336 drug screens on clients. Out of that, only 172 have been positive. So that's really good. Yeah, that's really good. Let's see. For home detention, we currently have, as of the end of May, we have 22 people on actual home detention. We have 10 wellness support participants. We have one on work release. We have two people on CTP, and we have five on pre-trial home detention. And then for several years now, I've been collecting, I've been tracking how much money we saved the county as far as like if People were in jail, how much they saved the county for being on our program. So far this year, we've saved the county $162,960 by having them on the ankle monitor instead of in jail. In 2025, we saved the county $409,605. That's what we saved in 2025, just on the ankle monitor. So when you look at it like that, it's a lot of money.

Have you ever described the new ankle monitors we use?

I believe so. Back when we first started, we did. But they work really, really well, very accurate. I know, I guess the most recent story we have is when we had somebody out on furlough for a funeral. We were actually able to track the sheriff and the chief deputy were actually able to track down to the woods to the tent that he had gone to instead of coming back to the jail like he was supposed to. So that worked out really well. Not able to remove it, being that having issues, anything like that. No GPS shutdown. We haven't had any tampers. It's really been a game changer as far as our electronic monitoring goes and community safety, things like that.

I don't see any questions or discussion about these reports.

So the next item would be old business and there is none. The new business, Abby's making reports on what she's learning about the Department of Corrections grant for the public's benefit. The majority of our funding for community corrections comes through a grant that is a community-funded department of corrections. We have to submit comments on our application, board approves it, commissioners approve it, and then all of them will be admitted learn how much do you want to receive, which in turn is how much we've requested for our budgets from accounting.

So the DOC grant covers my salary, Justin Barkdoll's, Mike Woodhall's, and our field officer's salary, the DOC community corrections grant. And then we have a DOC probation officer grant, which covers Eric's salary, as he's a moderate, high specialized, if you will, adult probation officer. We are expecting cuts in those. We don't know what they are, but we are expecting significant cuts across the state. So it's not just going to be us. We were told on Tuesday that they have determined the amount that we are getting, but they are in higher up for the reviews now. For the state JRAC to approve it, it's waiting for their meeting, basically, which is the last Friday in June is their date. Is there a meeting? So we should know. They said they'll send it out to us Monday morning, but they like to send it out, you know, like 4 or 5 on a Friday when no one can call and complain. So we expect we'll have those in June or the beginning of July of what we're going to do and then go from there.

As far as project income, what limitations, what things can that be used for and cannot be used?

As far as proctored income goes, they do not, I'm not sure it gets used somewhat for salaries, operating expenses, things like that. We do not make any operating expenses or salary expenses from the county. Community Corrections doesn't, or Eric's position does not. They solely just cover insurance. So PI covers all of our operating costs. We got, The amount of grants that we get from DOC does not cover the salary that we need. So PI makes up for that deficit. It does not have the same restrictions as us.

Us is the fees that they collect probation. Also part of the home detention fees or is that? No, that's strictly probation. Probation. There are big limitations on what you can do with that money. primarily it is to save your salary increases so collecting money from probation providers to pay some of those costs um the ctps are other limitations there they're not we kind of because it's like the ratio so it's up for things i know it's helped it helps to find a lot of people it was drained down to zero when we ran the paper insurance i didn't hurt but we've slowly been able to build that up over the last year and a half so thank you county council for everything that for letting us being able to fill that back up the ctp basically that our department of actions that they have allowed us to relate to transaction program they are on home attention the state through the case a great portion of the home attention fees just within that 10 months transition. A lot of people don't qualify, plus a lot of people coming out of prison don't move, they come back to our county where they need to be monitored. So we have to reject those and put them somewhere else within Decatur County. Some have gotten in a lot of trouble while they've been incarcerated. They're trying to just not be good candidates for CTPs, so not everyone, actually there's probably less than half of the people present to us that are eligible, that actually get proven who are eligible to be here. And I think that's still a good source of income for community breakfast and stuff. Anything else? I don't have any questions. So this is a, we're all on pins and needles this time of year because we have, I think this year they gave us until July 7th to submit our budgets. We have to plug in this project income, CTP money, and the grant that we haven't even found out what we're getting to determine what to ask. So it's all crunch time for us. But it can be pretty stressful because we have this money to keep everything going and it just doesn't matter who we ask for it. We have to wait until we know who we're going to get money from before we go and ask all the people in the county. But it is amazing how much money that We're able to save the county, not only in what Abby brought up, the people that aren't incarcerated because they're allowed to be securitized by community corrections, but just the grants we receive, the funds that they collect. So it is a win-win for everyone. And yet we still struggle to get over the finish line every budget year to make sure that we're fully funded. It's a process. and it's going to be able to report our September meeting, not all that much. The next item on the agenda would be our meetings, our 2026 meetings. This is the June 3rd, August 1st, September 11th. Then we are next meeting, last meeting of the year is December 4th.

Anyone have anything that they'd like to bring up before the meeting? Move to adjourn. Take a motion to adjourn our meeting.

So, my apologies are set. They're all set. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right.