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Klamath County juvenile director urges immediate hires as staffing gap threatens $1M program
Summary
Juvenile Department Director Dan Golden told commissioners on Nov. 26 that a months‑long hiring freeze and a personnel‑record discrepancy with HR have constrained the KCR program’s capacity and revenue; the board agreed by consensus to post openings and asked Commissioner DeGroot and HR to reconcile records before wider hiring.
Dan Golden, director of the Klamath County Juvenile Department, told the Board of Commissioners on Nov. 26 that the county’s KCR juvenile program is short‑staffed after months without recruitment and is now jeopardizing about $1 million in annual program revenue.
"A program that has generated over $1,000,000 last fiscal year is now in jeopardy," Golden said, urging the board to approve immediate recruitment of additional part‑time staff for the juvenile facility.
Golden said the program operates under a contract with the Liberty Health Authority that requires specific staffing ratios (he cited approximately 2.8 clients per staff on swing shifts) and that insufficient staffing has forced the department to reduce client capacity to remain compliant. He told commissioners the program had helped shift juvenile operations funding away from the county general fund — from roughly 85% county‑funded a decade ago toward about 60% — and that losing capacity reduces state reimbursements and local revenue.
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