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County staff: juvenile detention budget close to year‑to‑date actuals; overtime traced to staffing gaps and safety needs
Summary
Finance staff and juvenile administrators reviewed detention and probation budgets, FTE counts, and an overtime audit that identified reasons for spikes tied to vacancies, vacations and opening an extra housing pod for security reasons.
Cowlitz County finance and juvenile court staff briefed commissioners on year‑to‑date budget performance for juvenile detention and probation programs and on recent overtime trends and a payroll audit.
Susie Moon, county finance manager, reported that juvenile detention’s goods and services line (about $5.056 million budgeted) has already exceeded the adopted budget and will be increased in a fourth‑quarter amendment; Moon said much of that overspend reflects room‑and‑board charges. She said miscellaneous revenue (previously not budgeted) has brought in roughly $800 so far this year and will be added in the fourth‑quarter amendment. Moon said other financing sources (about $33,000 budgeted) had not yet recorded revenue; that sum represents a planned ARPA transfer approved in a prior amendment.
Moon said…
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