District 6 juvenile detention center routes clinician funding through county; budget item is fully reimbursable

Seth Scott, director of the District 6 Juvenile Detention Center, told the Bannock County Commissioners that the center’s budgets follow the separate joint powers board and that the B budget was approved by that board on May 7.

Scott said one notable change in the center’s B budget is a professional-services line (line item 673) for clinician services totaling $58,357 that will be routed through the county. “This is 100% reimbursable,” Scott said, explaining the Department of Corrections previously paid clinicians directly for some centers while other centers routed funds through county budgets; the department directed that funding be handled the same way for all centers going forward.

Scott said that because the clinician funding will be matched by reimbursement it “will never be anything that cost the county any money. It'll just it's just going through this budget at this point.” He did not specify whether reimbursements will come as monthly payments or a lump sum.

Scott also reported Road and Bridge asked the center to update its fleet; the center included a capital request for a replacement vehicle because at least one vehicle “is gonna die,” though he did not provide the exact replacement schedule or cost. He said the A budget requests a cost-of-living adjustment option but left the amount to the discretion of the commission.

The transcript records that the joint board approved the B budget on May 7 with Ernie Moser present for that vote; no county commission vote is recorded in the provided excerpt. No formal votes or additional motions about the clinician funding or vehicle request are shown in the excerpt.