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Ravalli County discusses preliminary budget, sets juvenile-detention reserve and approves EDA insurance coverage
Summary
County commissioners reviewed department budget requests, agreed to increase the juvenile-detention reserve, approved adding an EDA employee to the county insurance plan, budgeted an airport parking repair and deferred several salary increases for further review.
Ravalli County commissioners spent the meeting reviewing department budget requests and setting short-term fiscal priorities, including a plan to increase the juvenile-detention fund reserve and to add an Economic Development Authority (EDA) staffer to the county insurance plan.
The commissioners agreed to hold juvenile-detention operating assumptions at 700 detention days for the coming fiscal year while increasing the fund reserve to the statutory maximum (about one-third) to cover volatility in daily costs paid to outside facilities. Finance staff computed that, on the 700-day assumption, the county would need a one-time transfer from the District Court fund of $41,006.86 to reach the recommended reserve level.
Why it matters: the county has no local juvenile-detention facility and pays other counties for juvenile beds and transport. Daily counts and court commitments have varied…
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