The Placer County Board of Supervisors will review a proposed plan Tuesday for implementing public safety realignment, a state-mandated program that is shifting responsibility for many adult parolees and lower-risk offenders from the state to counties.
Placer County’s implementation plan was drafted by a state-mandated group called the Community Corrections Partnership Advisory Committee and its Executive Committee. The chair of both committees is county Chief Probation Officer Marshall C. Hopper.
The proposed implementation plan lays out the roles and responsibilities to be played by county agencies, the courts, municipal law enforcement agencies and community agencies that provide substance abuse, alcohol abuse and mental health treatment services.
The implementation plan also outlines a preliminary budget and staffing plan for handling realignment responsibilities.
Placer County is scheduled to receive approximately $3.1 million from the state during the 2011-12 fiscal year to help cover the costs of its new responsibilities and $360,725 in one-time state funds for planning and training.
The proposed implementation plan projects first-year costs at more than $4.75 million, $1.66 million more than the operating funds the state has allocated to the county. The Board of Supervisors will be asked at a later meeting to consider using General Fund reserves for such purposes while considering other countywide funding needs.
In two reports to the board, county staff notes that more adult parolees and lower-level offenders were shifted to Placer County’s responsibility during the first three months of realignment than state officials projected.
The Advisory Committee includes representatives from several county departments and offices: the Board of Supervisors, Probation, the District Attorney’s Office, Public Defender, Sheriff’s Office, Health and Human Services and County Executive Office. It also has representatives from the Placer County Superior Court, Placer County Office of Education, local police agencies, community-based organizations and crime victims.
Supervisor Jack Duran represents the Board of Supervisors on the advisory committee.
In other action, the board will:
- Select its chair and vice chair for 2012;
- Conduct a public hearing before deciding whether to increase a facility impact fee paid by new developments in areas served by the Placer County Fire Department. The fee would be increased by 4.07 percent to reflect inflation over the past 22 months. Fee revenue is used to help fund capital improvements. The board also will be asked to reduce the fee paid by new agricultural buildings to 20 percent of the current rate, based on a review of the volume of calls Placer County Fire receives that involve agricultural buildings.
- Be asked to accept $162,880 in Assistance to Firefighters Grant funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Placer County would provide $40,720 in matching funds. The $203,600 would be used to acquire four monitor defibrillators and 31 sets of firefighter gear, including coats, boots, helmets, hoods and gloves. The latter will replace gear borrowed from other agencies and outfit volunteer firefighters.
Tuesday’s meeting will be held at 9 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers at the County Administrative Center, 175 Fulweiler Ave., in Auburn.