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Douglas County Corrections director reports budget underrun, credits pretrial program with $799,340 in March savings
Summary
Director Michael Myers told commissioners the corrections budget is $2.1 million under projection after nine months, described staffing changes and said GPS-supervised pretrial release saved Douglas County $799,340 in March; commissioners asked staff to annualize the savings and examine demographic disparities in the jail population.
Director Michael Myers told the Douglas County Board of Commissioners on April 28 that the Department of Corrections is tracking $2,106,994 under budget after nine months of the fiscal year and that March overtime costs dropped to $276,531.
Myers, the county’s director of corrections, said the department processed more than $1,000,000 in bond payments in March, lost five officers below sergeant rank (including one retirement) and is currently staffed at roughly 101 percent across correctional-officer ranks. "We had $276,531 were spent on overtime costs in March. That is down nearly $90,000 from the previous month," Myers said.
The department also reported operational metrics from March: 1,402 admissions, 1,422 releases, a high count of 1,133 and an average daily population of 1,094. Myers said pretrial-release programs —…
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