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JUL 11 11969 P00K 77 Fa.cc 31 With this growing need for Probation services the work load for our personnel has increased accordingly. This is indicated by inception of the new County Work Program which was authorized by the Board on June 20, 1989 and outlined in the proposal which was submitted, at that time. The amount of paperwork required to meet departmental and criminal justice system standards is growing at the same rate. In fact, the present support staff cannot keep up with the demand. It is becoming more apparent that they cannot maintain adequate control of the cases and continue to provide quality probation services to the Courts with the present staff. Presently, one of the two Probation Officers spends a minimum of twelve (12) hours weekly involved in data entry of information which prints out the weekly work program report, distributed to the Courts and other probation agencies. This is work that could be done by support staff and not time taken from the Officer's schedule which is needed for case load management. Due to the present work schedule we are operating seven days a week. The week -ends are used to supervise and maintain the work program. This requires a Probation Officer for a minimum of two hours, on site for each Saturday and Sunday. We have been currently rotating the two officers for over three years to cover the Week -End Work Program. ANALYSIS/FUNDING: Since inception the Probation Division has been, responsible to collect monies under the following categories: 1. Fine/Court Cost - These monies are collected from persons that cannot pay the entire amount of the assessed charges at one time. (Time Payment Plan) 185 - 3/31/89 - $227,083. 2. Cost of Supervision - Monies that are collected as revenue for the Probation Division. 185 -3/31/89 - $154,301. 3. Restitution - Monies that are refunded to the victims of the crimes committed by"that offender. 185 - 3/31/89 - $59,274. !Effective May 1, 1989 the Courts made the following changes in their .schedule of charges: 1. Cost of Supervision paid by each supervised offender was increased from $25.00 to $30.00 per month. This will generate an estimated additional $10,000 per year. 2. Each Probation/Pre-Trail case assigned Community Service hours is assessed a one time $5.00 fee which should generate approximately $2,500 per year. 3. Each Probation case ordered by the Court to pay a fine and court cost on the weekly/monthly installment plan is assessed an additional $5.00 per month fee. This should generate approximately $19,800 per year. Based on historical data as to number of offenders participating in each program, it is estimated these new assessments will generate an additional $32,800 revenues for Cost of Supervision. The Week -End Work Program has recorded 118,678 hours of labor performed by participants as of May 1, 1989. Using the average labor cost of $5.00 per hour, this equates to $593.390 in labor savings to the County not including fringe benefits. These work hours represent 14,834 eight .hour work days. If these days had been served in the County Jail at a daily maintenance cost of $33.00, the incarceration costs would equal $489.522 during this period of time. 57