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Jail board reviews FY25 finances and funding request for leased training space
Summary
Budget staff reported FY25-to-date revenue slightly above projections, a FY24 surplus that increased fund balance to about $18 million, and a request to fund leased training space from fund balance to be taken to the Dec. 10 Board of Supervisors agenda.
Miss Clint presented the FY25-to-date budget position as of Oct. 31 and said revenues are expected to slightly exceed projections, driven by higher-than-budgeted state compensation board receipts. She reported the City of Manassas utilization rate was 10.2% against a budget assumption of 13.5%, meaning the city is likely to receive a refund at year end.
On the expenditure side, the jail is on a normal spending pace with no extraordinary medical or building costs reported. Miss Clint noted final FY24 results: revenues finished about $1,500,000 over budget and expenditures finished about $3,400,000 under budget, with approximately $2,600,000 of that attributed to vacancy savings. She said those results will float to the jail fund balance, which she reported currently stands at just over $18,000,000.
Miss Clint said the jail will request that the Prince William County Board of Supervisors consider funding leased space for training operations at its Dec. 10 meeting; the jail is proposing to use fund balance to cover the remainder of FY25 and the '26 cycle until the Judicial Center complex project provides long-term general-fund space. "We're asking to fund the leased space out of fund balance for fiscal 25, the remainder of that as well as the '26 cycle," Miss Clint said.
Miss Clint also outlined planned FY26 budget requests that could affect the next cycle: an RFID project and Chromebooks to meet new DCJS testing requirements, continued investment in the Corrections 1 training platform, advertising and recruitment funding (including radio spots), an employee-referral incentive program, and increased preventative maintenance and replacement for inmate housing equipment. She flagged a one-time rec-flooring final payment of roughly $40,000'$41,000 and commissary cash balances of just over $2 million for both September and October.
Board members asked clarifying questions about the fund-balance level and recruiting-class sizes. There was no board vote on budget items at this meeting; the presenter asked interested parties to track the Dec. 10 Board of Supervisors agenda for the training-space request.
