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Beltrami County shifts $20,000 in attorney salary savings to keep juvenile diversion program running
Summary
The Beltrami County Board approved a one-time $20,000 transfer from unspent County Attorney salary funds to the county’s juvenile diversion program after the state postponed a grant for 2025.
The Beltrami County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to allow $20,000 in unspent County Attorney salary funds to be used as a stopgap for the county’s juvenile diversion program after a state grant administrator said the grant would not be issued for 2025.
County Attorney Dave Hanson told the board the diversion program is “one of the most robust in the state” and is run in collaboration with the Bemidji Area Services Collaborative (BASC). Hanson said the program is partially funded by a $10,000 county levy and, for more than a decade, by a state grant previously administered by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety that is now being folded into the…
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