Marion County Community Corrections Advisory Board Meeting - August 21, 2025
Marion County Community Corrections Advisory Board Meeting - August 21, 2025
The Marion County Community Corrections Advisory Board (MCCC) met on August 21, 2025, at 12:00pm in the City-County Building, Room T-260, chaired by Carlette Duffy. The meeting covered approval of prior minutes, the JCC annual report, a new language translation contract, and a detailed budget presentation for 2026. No public comments were received.
Consent Calendar
- The July 17, 2025 meeting minutes were approved by voice vote with no opposition.
Discussion Items
- JCC Annual Report (Haylee Elsea, Director of Community Safety Initiatives): The report covered the Community Adjustment Unit for juveniles, which supervised 723 juveniles during the period July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025, with 573 successfully completing supervision. The board discussed the unit's operations (daily home checks, electronic monitoring), pre-adjudication services (home-based therapy, drug treatment), and the need to engage parents. A motion to approve the report for submission to the Department of Correction passed unanimously.
- MCCC Contracts (Deanna Cantrell, Project Manager; Justin Garcia, CFO): A new one-year contract with Language Training Center (LTC) for language translation services was presented, piggybacking on an existing state contract. The not-to-exceed amount is $40,000, consistent with prior contracts. The board noted a successful pilot test in June and the need for reliable translation (including sign language). A motion to approve the contract passed unanimously.
- MCCC Budget Update (Scott Hohl, Executive Director; Justin Garcia, CFO): The proposed 2026 budget totals $22,492,408, a decrease of $462,000 (2%) from 2025. Key points:
- Character 1 (Salaries): 66% of budget, up $80,000 due to COLA and health insurance. A 4% reserve ($300,000) from four frozen positions and an additional $220,000 removed for attrition (11% rate). Concerns: potential overspend if attrition drops, limited overtime at 24-hour facilities (work release and client services) could affect public safety.
- Character 2: Less than 1% of budget, down $14,000 (fleet costs reduced after vehicle upgrades).
- Character 3: 33% of budget, down $500,000 due to the reserve. Impact: limited ability to fund training, conferences, programming, facility maintenance (especially at Devol, where a $1 million roof, $50,000 freezer, and $60,000 generator are needed).
- Character 4: Less than 1%, down $50,000 (cumulative capital funds used for vehicle upgrades).
- Revenue: Projected $1 million, primarily from user fees (home detention and work release). Collection rate below 30%; fees are not enforced through violations but through tax intercepts and lottery/gambling intercepts. A significant portion of clients are deemed indigent.
- Grants: $6 million received, mainly from DOC and Justice Assistance Grant. Grant seeking is challenging at federal and state levels.
- Updates: Financial literacy classes will begin in late 2025/early 2026, taught in-house. A job fair is scheduled for August 29 at Devol. The Excel Center partnership will start HSE classes. Devol facility assessment is pending.
Key Outcomes
- Approved the July 17, 2025 meeting minutes.
- Approved the JCC annual report for submission to the Department of Correction.
- Approved the one-year contract with Language Training Center (LTC) for $40,000.
- The 2026 budget was presented for information; no vote was taken.
- Next meeting: September 19, 2025, at 12:00pm in the same location.
Meeting Transcript
Good afternoon, everyone. Um I'm Carlette Duffy, I'm chair um of the Marion County Community Correction Advisory Board, and uh we would like to start off with um a roll call of our board members, Sandra Hardin probation Paige Bova, Mary Superior Court, Colonel James Martin, Marin County Sheriff's Office. Bailey Renchi, Corporation Counsel. Jim Snyder, Judge Mary and Spear Court. Dan Jacini, Barry County Prosecutor's Office. Ray Casanova, Chief Public Defender, Marion County Public Defender Agency. Chesley Coleman Miller, uh community representative from Middle Hill. Excellent. Um and I'm a Carlite Duffy again. I am uh CFO for the Office of Public Health and Safety. Um, so we will call this meeting to order and the first agenda item is considering consideration of um approval for minutes for July 17th meeting. Um everyone has received those um electronically and print. Um do we have any questions to discuss? Perfect. Can I get a motion to approve? Having a first and second, um again, any discussion. Um, all those in favor of approval um say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The minutes are approved. Next on the agenda is the JCC annual report um presentation, director of community safety initiatives, Haley Elcia? Yes. Okay, well, make sure I said it right. Yeah, good afternoon. Um I'm Haley Elseia. I'm the director of community safety initiative for Marion County Probation Department. Um you should have all received a copy of the JCC annual report um for July 1st of 24 through June 30th of 25. Um so this inside just gives an overview of our community adjustment adjustment unit, um, which consists of three full-time probation officers and a full-time support staff. Um, just to kind of give an overview of the year, we supervised a total of 723 juveniles, and out of those 723, we had um 573 successfully complete this year. Um the demographics remain the same pretty much throughout the report. Um, but you will notice a pretty big difference on pages six and seven. Um the numbers went way down. We have fine we've decided to kind of make a few differences in the report, fine-tune it specifically for our program. Um whereas in the years past we we totaled all juveniles on supervision. Uh we are focusing now just the juveniles who are under our program. So I'd be happy to answer any questions, but I'm just seeking approval to submit this report to DOC. Is there are there any questions? Just want to get folks a couple of extra minutes just to refresh their memories. So oh. Well, I have my copy. But what's in front of you right now is just highlights and a bit of a summary of the report that was submitted. I I don't think you're missing a lot. The second page is blank, and then so um, and then the third page, it just goes over um what I said, how what the program involves? It's three full-time officers and one full-time support staff. Um I'm not sure what other pages are missing. Okay. Um they're out in the community. They're checking on the juveniles who are on electronic monitoring, uh, making contact with parents or guardians at home, um, just inspecting the equipment, making sure that they're not able to slip it off or foiling the devices, making sure they work. Um, we will get some alerts where it'll say that the juvenile is not home or across the street, so they'll go out and make sure that it's not a device issue and that the child is at home. Um they do this every day, every day in clean house.
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