File #: 24-0355    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 8/15/2024 In control: Board of Hennepin County Commissioners
On agenda: 8/20/2024 Final action: 9/17/2024
Title: Establish 2025 Adult Corrections Facility rates for housing residents
Attachments: 1. RESOLUTION
Item Description:
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Establish 2025 Adult Corrections Facility rates for housing residents
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Resolution:
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BE IT RESOLVED, that the following rates for the incarceration of individuals in the Adult Corrections Facility be charged to committing jurisdictions in 2025:

* Straight time confinement, $228 per resident day
* Work Release confinement, $228 per resident day - gross
* Work Release confinement, $208 per resident day - net
* Work Release residents to be charged a per diem of $20 per day
* Electronic Home Monitoring (EHM) and Work Release EHM, $30 per day - gross
* Work Release EHM, $10 per day - net
* Work Release EHM clients to be charged a per diem of $20 per day
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Background:
The Adult Corrections Facility (ACF) is authorized to charge a daily amount, that is a per diem, for confinement of residents to: (1) the arresting municipalities for those misdemeanor clients who are sentenced to the ACF; (2) other Minnesota counties that request that individuals convicted by their courts be incarcerated in the ACF; and (3) the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office for confinement of overflow residents from the jail.

Each year, the ACF per diems are reviewed and updated using a methodology prescribed by Minnesota Statute 383B.128. There are two primary components. First, the net ACF costs (2023 actual expenditures less program generated revenues) are divided by the 2023 actual resident days. Second, the resulting amount is then adjusted by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the year ending June 30, 2024 (2.63% increase for the Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Area; published by US Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics on July 11, 2024).

DOCCR is recommending that the client- portion for Work Release and Work Release EHM remain constant at $20/day for 2025; the ACF uses a sliding fee scale that discounts this fee based on poverty guidelines. Straight-time EHM clients are not assessed the client portion as this populati...

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