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Cowlitz County officials flag juvenile detention staffing, overtime and budget adjustments
Summary
County finance and juvenile court officials told commissioners juvenile detention is under staffing pressure, driving overtime; staff and finance proposed fourth-quarter budget amendments to align revenue and expenses.
Susie Moon, Cowlitz County finance manager, and George Moya, juvenile court administrator, told the Board of Commissioners that juvenile detention and probation spending this year has been driven by staffing gaps, episodic population changes and internal service billings.
Moon said the juvenile detention program has underrealized intergovernmental revenue (listed in materials as $1,000 in budget with no receipts to date) and has exceeded the goods-and-services budget for room-and-board charges. "Goods and services had a budget of just shy of $5,056,000, and they have exceeded that," Moon said. She said two revenue lines—miscellaneous revenue (about $800 so far) and an other-financing-sources transfer of ARPA funds (budgeted at roughly $33,000)—will be adjusted in a fourth-quarter budget amendment.
On personnel, Moon reported…
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