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County updates: detention food contract rate rises slightly; DPHHS grant extended for detention mental-health staffing
Summary
A county amendment will raise the per-meal cost for inmates by about 7.6 cents per meal; the county also presented a one-year DPHHS amendment that adds funding and extends a behavioral-health grant for the adult detention center.
Cascade County commissioners heard two detention-related items during the work session: a second amendment to the county's food services contract and a DPHHS amendment extending and updating funding for mental-health services in the adult detention center.
Captain Kataski, filling in for Captain Darby, described the second amendment to Summit Food Services Inc. as an annual cost adjustment tied to the U.S. Department of Labor’s consumer price index. The per-meal cost will increase from $1.904 ("a dollar 90 and 4 tenths of a cent") to $1.980 ("a dollar 98 and 0 tenths of a cent"), an increase of about 7.6 cents per meal. County staff said the detention center population averages about 420 inmates, and staff noted the per-meal increase “adds up” when multiplied by three meals per day and the population.
Separately, county staff presented Montana DPHHS amendment number PHH22-0423R-B (recording references provided in the minutes) to extend a grant term one year, effective 07/01/2024 through 06/30/2025, and to update funding sources; total funding cited in the work session for this amendment was $155,448.68. Staff described this as a continuation of a grant — the Healing and Ending Addiction to Recovery and Treatment (HEART) grant — used to maintain mental-health staff in the detention center.
No formal votes or final contract signings were recorded in the work session transcript; items were presented for commission consideration and noted for placement on a subsequent action agenda.
