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Commissioners approve $220,000 transfer to cover pretrial electronic-monitoring costs; officials warn total FY25 shortfall larger
Summary
Travis County Commissioners on June 3 approved a $220,000 transfer from an earmark to Pretrial Services to pay electronic-monitoring device invoices through July 2025, while budget officials warned that projected FY25 device costs could exceed available funds by roughly $900,000–$1,000,000.
The Travis County Commissioners Court on June 3 unanimously approved a request to transfer $220,000 from an earmark against the county’s allocated reserve to the Pretrial Services Division to cover electronic-monitoring device expenses through July 2025.
Travis Gallant of the Planning and Budget Office asked the court to approve the transfer to help pretrial services pay immediate invoices. Miranda Besampos, also of PBO, detailed recent spending: “Pretrial services FY 2025 revised budget for the electronic monitoring devices is just over $2,200,000 and their expenses from invoices from October 2024 to April 2025 was just over 1,500,000.0.” PBO projected an additional $1,600,000 in device expenditures from May to September, yielding a projected FY25 total of just over $3,100,000 and a…
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