Wayne County advisory board approves Q4 report as staff outline plan to remake community corrections after $900,000 state award

Commissioner Alex Garza, chair of the Wayne County Community Correction Advisory Board, opened the meeting and the board approved the 05/28/2025 meeting minutes and the quarter‑4 program utilization report by voice vote.

Lester, a community corrections staff member, presented the quarter‑4 utilization and key performance indicators and highlighted several underused programs and administrative constraints. "We actually did not get the program up running until maybe August, somewhere around there, because of just just several reasons why paperwork, trying to get everything loaded in the computer, just how things function," he said of the violence‑prevention program funded this year. He also noted that, because some programs are underused, Wayne County can petition the Michigan Department of Corrections to reallocate unused funds to higher‑utilization programs.

Lester told the board the county ward for FY26 is $900,000. He said the award had been larger in prior cycles: "last year, it…