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Department of Corrections presents transition-bed math, IT projects and a $5.6M first-phase request for a new client management system
Summary
DOCR staff presented a line-by-line spreadsheet of transition, jail and reentry costs, staffing requests and IT priorities. The department requested $5.6 million for phase one of a multi-phase client management system; outside comparisons show total project costs typically run $17M–$37M depending on scope.
Michelle Zander, Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Corrections, walked the House Appropriations Committee — Human Resources Division through a detailed spreadsheet showing how the department calculated costs for transitional facilities, county holds, deferred admissions, work release and jail beds and how those calculations change under different per-diem assumptions.
Zander said the department used the executive recommendation as a starting point, then subtracted known transition and county-hold expenses to calculate remaining funds available for men’s and women’s populations. She described estimates that included transitional-facility and county-hold per diems, a $21.8 million executive recommendation number for transition, and a $16 million figure for jail-related costs. Zander also identified requests for specific projects: a Man Camp request totaling $9.3 million, a Grand Forks request of $16 million, and staffing requests including 12.5 FTEs for the Man Camp and a variety of FTEs across other…
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