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Spokane County budget briefing: commissioners press for clearer detention revenue analysis after $937,000 shortfall appears
Summary
Spokane County staff told commissioners a revised detention revenue calculation reduced projected revenues by about $937,000, prompting requests for a clearer methodology and additional briefings before the board finalizes budget postings and levy options.
Spokane County officials on Nov. 10 spent much of a morning briefing trying to reconcile late-breaking changes to detention revenue projections that staff said reduced net revenue by roughly $937,000 and left a near-term budget gap of about $900,000 on staff’s current worksheet.
The change followed an intra-staff recalculation that factored in assumptions about restocking populations, the county’s share of daily bed revenues and increases or decreases in placements for contract jurisdictions, the Department of Corrections and U.S. Marshals. Budget staff emphasized the calculation uses an Average Daily Population (ADP) model with multiple moving parts — jurisdictional mixes, contract daily rates and unpredictable judicial placements — and warned the figure is an estimate,…
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