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FLORIDA =02" <br />ASSOCIATION MWLEGISLATIVE ALERT <br />OF COUNTIES W W <br />P.O. Box 549 ♦ Tallahassee, FL 32302 Phone: 850-922-4300 ♦ Fax: 850-488-7192 Website: www.fl-counties.com <br />TO: County Commissioners County Attorneys <br />County Administrators County Lobbyists <br />FROM: Mary Kay Cariseo, Executive Director <br />DATE: April 20, 2004 <br />RE: PUBLIC SAFETY APPROPRIATIONS CONFERENCE COMMITTEE FINAL BUDGET <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Updating yesterday's Legislative Alert, the Public Safety Appropriations Conference Committee last <br />night recommended shifting the cost of pre -disposition detention of juvenile offenders to the counties. <br />However, they bumped the policy decision on how to implement the shift to the Appropriation <br />Conference Chairs, Sen. Ken Pruitt (R -St. Lucie) and Rep. Bruce Kyle (R -Lee), leaving open a <br />possible opportunity for leadership to allocate additional funds necessary to avoid the cost shift. <br />• <br />It will take an historic lobbying effort for leadership to change on this issue. Please make <br />phone calls to the following House and Senate leadership today and urge them to find <br />additional state revenues to fund pre -disposition costs for the Dept. of Juvenile Justice <br />detention facilities. Please act NOW to avoid this $90.2 million unfunded mandate! <br />House Speaker Johnnie Byrd (R -Hillsborough): (850) 488-1450 and Speaker's U.S. Senate <br />Campaign Headquarters at (813) 754-9441 <br />Senate President Jim King (R -Jacksonville -Duval): (850) 487-5229 <br />Sen. Tom Lee (R -Hillsborough): (850) 487-5072 <br />Sen. Ken Pruitt (R -St. Lucie): (850) 487-5088 <br />Rep. Bruce Kyle (R -Lee): (850) 488-1541 <br />Rep. Allan Bense (R -Bay): (850) 488-9696 <br />Your legislative delegation may not be aware of the Public Safety Appropriations Conference <br />Committee action last night, so also contact your legislators to let them know where this issue is in <br />the conference negotiations process. <br />Thank you for your continued effort at the local level. Please keep the phone calls coming! <br />MKC/cb <br />UALegislative\Legislative Aterts\2004\DJJ Leg Alert-042004.doc <br />MARYKAYCARISEO <br />C. GUYMAXCY <br />CLIFF THA ELL <br />WELTON G. CADWELL <br />SUSANLATVALA <br />CHUCKDUNN/CK <br />Executive Director <br />President <br />President -Elect <br />Pt Vice President <br />2^d Vice President <br />Immediate Past President <br />HIGHLANDS <br />I <br />LEON <br />LAKE <br />PINELLAS <br />OSCEOLA <br />