Budget team debates moving pretrial GPS fees into general fund, keeping indigent fund available

The Budget Evaluation Team of Oklahoma County met in a special session March 4, 2025, and discussed whether pretrial services contracts and memoranda of understanding should be funded from the county general fund instead of a special revenue account and how to handle small GPS service fees currently recorded in fund 12-60.

The discussion focused on two practical questions: whether MOU/contract payments for pretrial services should be paid from general government beginning July 1, and whether fees collected from people on GPS monitoring that are currently booked to fund 12-60 or an indigent fund may be transferred or used to subsidize those contract costs. "I had always envisioned that starting July 1, there's not estimated needs for these 3. 12.60 is a special revenue," one member said, arguing contracts could be paid from the general fund and any small…