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Davis County budget panel considers moving jail medical costs into inmate-services enterprise fund
Summary
During a working lunch the budget committee discussed isolating jail medical expenses in the inmate services enterprise fund to improve transparency and comparability; members also explored whether the county can bill inmate health insurance or tap a Medicaid pilot to recover costs. No motions or votes were recorded.
Unidentified Speaker 1 proposed moving jail medical expenses and associated revenues entirely into the county's inmate services enterprise fund to isolate costs and make transfers from the general fund explicit rather than masking expenses across departments. The speaker said prior presentations mixed lines in ways that hurt year‑to‑year comparability, noting an earlier back-and-forth where jail medical costs were described first as "about a million" and later as "2,000,000."
The committee discussed the accounting and policy implications of such a shift. Speaker 1 said the county could accept…
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