State guidance says the county's 0.2% correctional/rehab tax fund can't pay for non-facility staff
Who it touches: This limits how the county can spend that particular slice of local income tax money — it can't be redirected to cover staff salaries unless the work happens at a jail or treatment facility itself (1:42:52).
A county staff member reported that the State Board of Accounts' general counsel confirmed the county's two-tenths-of-one-percent correctional and rehabilitation facility tax fund cannot pay for anything that isn't tied to a specific facility — including staff doing "dual diagnosis" mental health work — unless that work is based at an actual facility. 1:42:52 — open the recording, cued to 1 hour 42 minutes 52 seconds
The fund's use is set by a state statute that lets a county adopt an ordinance imposing that tax rate specifically for correctional and rehabilitation facilities. 1:43:50 — open the recording, cued to 1 hour 43 minutes 50 seconds
More from the record
- Committee confirms it can't use that fund, 1:44:271:44:27 (1 hour 44 minutes 27 seconds)
Outcome
No fund decision changed; that spending has to come from county general instead, per state guidance
The committee confirmed it would need to fund that staffing request through the county general fund instead, since the correctional/rehab fund doesn't qualify (1:44:27).
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