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Consent-General Government # 11.
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| Board of Supervisors |
County Administrator |
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| Subject |
| Approve award of $33,992 from the Local Innovation Subaccount: Safe Communities Program Innovation Grant to the Sheriff’s Office to fund the study and development of a statement of work for a criminal justice and behavioral health information sharing project. (No general fund impact) (Blacklock/West) |
| Recommended Action |
Approve award of $33,992 from the Local Innovation Subaccount: Safe Communities Program Innovation Grant to the Sheriff’s Office to fund the study and development of a statement of work for a criminal justice and behavioral health information sharing project.
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| Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
| Safe Communities |
| Reason for Recommended Action/Background |
Background
The Local Innovation Subaccount is a public safety fund mandated by the State as part of the Public Safety Realignment of 2011. This subaccount is unique in that its expenditure is at the sole discretion of the Board of Supervisors and not required to adhere to standard Community Corrections Partnership funding processes. The County is directed under Government Code 30029.07(b) to transfer 10% of the annual allocation of the following four local growth accounts created in the 2011 package into the subaccount:
- Trial Court Security Growth Special Account
- Juvenile Justice Growth Special Account
- District Attorney and Public Defender Growth Special Account
- Community Corrections Growth Special Account
The first year of funding to the Local Innovation Subaccount comes from the 2015-16 growth revenues, received by the County in the first quarter of the 2016-17 fiscal year. The Board of Supervisors has the sole discretion in the expenditure of the funds allocated to this account.
In May 2016, the Board approved a policy that established a process for allocation of the Local Innovation Subaccount funds through the creation of a “Safe Communities Program Innovation Grant” (See Attachment A). Through this grant, County staff and community-based organizations that provide services to justice-involved populations have the opportunity to innovate with the use of these funds. A Community Corrections Partnership (CCP) Ad Hoc Subcommittee was created to assist with oversight.
Under this policy a priority focus theme is to be established for each application cycle and all grant funding requests must meet a permissible use related to one of the four local growth accounts (which are detailed in Attachment A). Additionally, the County Administrator’s Office (CAO) is to announce the application period for the grant to community based organizations and County staff. Once received, the applications are reviewed by an interdisciplinary scoring panel and their recommendation is presented to the CCP Ad Hoc Subcommittee before presentation to the Board of Supervisors for final approval.
Safe Communities Program Grant FY16-17
Fiscal Year 2016-17 is the inaugural year for the Safe Communities Program Innovation Grant and $33,992 is available from the Local Innovation Subaccount to distribute. The CAO's office sent out notification to County staff and community based organizations in November of the grant application period, which ran from November 16 to December 21, 2016. The priority focus chosen for this year was mental health. Ultimately, the application from the Sheriff’s Office was the only proposal received. Therefore, rather than a scoring panel, the application was reviewed by CAO staff to ensure it met the requirements and then approved by the CCP Ad Hoc Subcommittee (See Attachment B for the Application).
The Sheriff’s Office proposes utilizing the grant to fund a study and the development of a statement of work for a criminal justice and behavioral health information sharing project. With support from the Continuum of Care Work Group, and in accordance with the Stepping UP Initiative, the Sheriff's Office seeks to address the issue of cross-system information sharing, particularly information about the health and treatment of people with mental illnesses. For this project a qualified consultant would first determine what data needs to be shared and with whom, where the data is currently stored, and how the data can flow between appropriate parties. The consultant would then be tasked with creating system maps of the business flow, identifying overlaps where information needs to be shared, as well as identifying when information security is needed. The proposal estimates that additional funds, outside of those supplied by the Safe Communities Program Innovation grant, may be needed to complete the evaluation; which the Sheriff’s Office will seek to obtain through available funds or appropriate grants.
The proposal meets the mental health priority focus area and furthers the Safe Communities goal and Continuum of Care priority focus area of the Yolo County 2016-2019 Strategic Plan. Additionally, the project's goal to improve effective data sharing aligns with the “Community Corrections” permissible use of matching correctional practices with a data-driven justice reinvestment strategy, as mandated in the Post-release Community Supervision Act of 2011 (Title 2.05 (commencing with Section 3450) of Part 3 of the Penal Code). |
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Community Corrections Partnership Ad Hoc Subcommittee
County Administrator's Office |
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Explanation (Expenditure and/or Revenue) |
| Further explanation as needed: |
| Fiscal Year 2016-2017 is the inaugural year for the Safe Communities Program Innovation Grant and $33,992 is available from the Local Innovation Subaccount to distribute. |
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