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Harnett County JCPC shifts to two-year awards, lists youth program allocations
Summary
The Harnett County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council told commissioners it shifted to a two-year funding period for selected programs and listed awards and allowable uses; monitoring and state oversight will continue, the council chair said.
Kimberly Whitted, chairperson of the Harnett County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council, told the Board of Commissioners the council is recommending a change this year from yearly program awards to an option for two-year awards and presented the programs the council selected for funding.
Whitted said the two-year funding option means programs that are awarded will not have to reapply via a request for proposals in the intervening year but will remain subject to the JCPC’s monitoring and the state’s oversight. “We always do monitoring with all of the programs…so the continued monitoring that we do with the JCPC as well as with the state continues,” Whitted said.
Whitted listed awards for the upcoming funding period and described how the funds may be used: Harnett County juvenile restitution/community service and team court programs ($138,485); a Harnett County Sheriff’s Department program (amount read in the meeting as roughly $68,250); Dun Powell School Kids Empower and career-readiness programs (amount read as about $108,310); and administration, training and registration ($5,000). Whitted said the awards are for programs that have been in good standing with both the county and the state. The total amount stated in the presentation was read aloud by Whitted (the transcript records the total as “320 and $45,000”).
Whitted described permitted uses and limits on the awards. Programs submit budgets in their applications, and approved funds typically cover staff salaries, educational and evaluation materials, and other items tied to the program’s approved services. She said the JCPC’s funds support the tutoring and career-readiness portions of programs such as Harnett Pal and School Kids Empower but do not fund the sports components of those programs. “The sports part of their programming…we do not support or our funds are not used for the sports part of the program, only for the tutoring part,” Whitted said. She added that expenditures must match the approved application and will be verified through the JCPC’s monitoring.
A board member asked whether funds could be used for computer training; Whitted said purchases of computers or software could be included in a program’s approved budget if those items were requested and approved. The presentation concluded after several commissioners thanked Whitted for the explanation and the council’s work.
Ending
Whitted asked the board for permission to submit the county plan and related agreements as required by state JCPC procedures. The transcript records the presentation and board questions; it does not include a recorded formal vote on the submission in the work-session excerpt.
