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C. 55

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	David Twa, County Administrator
Date:	June 7, 2016

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

AB 109 Contracts for Employment/Education Liaison services

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 06/07/2016

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

L. DeLaney, 925-335-1097

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: June 7, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the County Administrator, or designee, to execute contract amendments and extensions with Reach Fellowship International and Men and Women of Purpose to increase the total payment limit by $100,000 to a new total payment limit of $200,000 for employment/education liaison services for the County’s AB 109 Realignment Program and to extend the term from June 30, 2016 to June 30, 2017, as recommended by the County Administrator.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The two contracts totaling $100,000 are 100% funded by State Public Safety Realignment revenue.


$50,000 for Men and Women of Purpose

FISCAL IMPACT: (CONT'D)

$50,000 for Reach Fellowship International

BACKGROUND:

In 2011, the California Legislature passed the Public Safety Realignment Act (Assembly Bill 109), which transferred responsibility for supervising specific low-level inmates and parolees from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to counties. This Act tasked local government at the county level with developing a new approach to reducing recidivism among this population. AB 109 took effect October 1, 2011 and realigned three major areas of the criminal justice system.

On a prospective basis, the legislation:

Transferred the location of incarceration for individuals convicted of lower-level specified non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offences from state prison to local county jail pursuant to Penal Code 1170 (h) and provides for an expanded role for their post-release Mandatory Supervision;
Transferred responsibility from the State to the County for post-release supervision of those released from prison after having served a sentence for a non-violent, non-serious, and non-sex offense by creating a new category of supervision called Post-Release Community Supervision (PRCS);
Transferred the housing responsibility for parole and PRCS revocations to local jail custody.

AB 109 also tasked the local Community Corrections Partnership (CCP) with recommending to the County Board of Supervisors a plan for implementing criminal justice realignment. The Board of Supervisors adopted the Contra Costa County Realignment Plan on October 4, 2011 (Agenda Item No. D.5), as recommended by the Executive Committee of the CCP.

The Executive Committee of the CCP is composed of the County Probation Officer (Chair), Sheriff-Coroner, a Chief of Police (represented by the Richmond Police Chief), District Attorney, Public Defender, Presiding Judge of the Superior Court or designee (represented by the Court Director of Business Planning, Information and Programs), and County Behavioral Health Director.

For fiscal year 2016/17, the CCP-Executive Committee approved the 2016/17 AB109 Public Safety Realignment budget at the January 22, 2016 regular meeting and submitted to the Public Protection Committee for review and approval. On February 8, 2016, the Public Protection Committee approved the 2016/17 AB109 Public Safety Realignment budget. On May 10, 2016, the Board of Supervisors adopted the Recommended Budget for Contra Costa County for FY 2016/17, including the AB109 Public Safety Realignment budget.

Today's action approves and authorizes the extension and amendment of contracts with Reach Fellowship International and Men and Women of Purpose to provide employment and education liaison services for the AB 109 Public Safety Realignment Program, specifically for the Central/East Network Reentry System of Services, increasing the payment limit of each contract by $50,000 to a new payment limit of $100,000 for each contract ($200,000 in total) and to extend the term from June 30, 2016 through June 30, 2017.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If the Board of Supervisors does not approve and authorize the contracts, the contracts will not be effectuated.