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JFAC approves Community Corrections budget enhancements including Pocatello reentry center annualization
Summary
At a Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee meeting, budget staff presented the fiscal year 2026 maintenance and enhancement package for the Department of Correction’s Community Corrections Division, and the committee approved funding to annualize personnel costs at the Pocatello Community Reentry Center and to cover inflation and replacement items.
At a Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee meeting, budget staff presented the fiscal year 2026 maintenance and enhancement package for the Department of Correction’s Community Corrections Division. Noah Peterson (presenting earlier items) summarized that the division includes community supervision, probation and parole, community reentry programs and centers.
Representative Manmore moved the fiscal year 2026 JFAC program maintenance and enhancement package for Community Corrections. The motion covered enhancement 7: the annualization of personnel costs for positions at the Pocatello Community Reentry Center that were funded for six months in FY2025; general inflation adjustments; and replacement items. The motion text described $680,700 for annualization of personnel costs at the Pocatello center, $212,300 for general inflation and $1,574,000 for replacement items, yielding a total request stated in the motion of $2,467,000, including $116,200 from the general fund and $2,350,800 from dedicated funds.
Senator Wintrow seconded the motion. The roll call produced a combined committee tally the chair recorded as 16 ayes, 3 nays and 1 absent/excused; the chair announced the majority voted to approve the package and it will go forward with a do‑pass recommendation.
Peterson explained that the annualization reflects the remaining six months of salary and benefits for positions already funded half a year in FY2025; the motion did not add full‑time positions, but completed the annual personnel cost funding for those positions. Replacement items and inflation adjustments were described as standard budget maintenance items.
