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County approves $1.3 million stopgap for jail beds, asks pretrial subcommittee for recommendations
Summary
The Multnomah County Board approved a roughly $1.3 million budget modification to cover a shortfall in funding for jail beds and attached a new budget note directing the county’s pretrial subcommittee to produce options and resource estimates to inform the midyear rebalance and FY2027 planning.
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Thursday approved a roughly $1.3 million budget modification to cover a decline in this fiscal year’s funding for jail beds and added a board-requested budget note instructing the county’s pretrial subcommittee to develop recommendations and resource estimates.
Chief of business services for the sheriff’s office John Harms Millant told the board the sheriff’s office “is receiving less funding from the State Department of Corrections in this fiscal year than anticipated” and that the proposed modification would “move contingency to cover that delta,” money that “typically pays for jail beds here at the county.”
The board also…
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