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I i °`n rt,J SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT Budget Director Joe Baird gave a brief background description of the Sheriffs Department's request. The Sheriffs office had originally asked the Board for permission to house some Broward County prisoners through an agreement where Broward County would pay $45 per day per prisoner. The Sheriffs Office would retain a portion of the fee for services and had also requested that the remainder be used to supplement their budget in other ways. All of these funds have been used to offset Sheriffs costs and no other County departments have received any portion of these funds. Originally, on a month-to-month basis, the revenues and expenses were detailed and submitted to the Board for approval. Subsequently, the Sheriffrequested that this be done on an annual basis with all revenue projections coming from the Sheriffs Office. These figures received from the Sheriffs Office included the cost of capital equipment and the helicopter, but not the cost of feeding the out - of -county prisoners. In December of last year, he went over these figures with the Sheriff s Department due to the fact that they were making the revenue projections. At that time, the Budget Office tried to minimize the effect of the shortfall and when the Sheriffs Department requested a $261,789 refund, they were advised to cut the request as much as possible. They later came back with a request for $68,000 which Director Baird believed to be funds actually needed by the Sheriff s Department. However, it appears that the funds to feed the out -of -county prisoners have been omitted from the budget. The recommendation would be to take out the revenue item and reduce the expense item by the same amount to make it easier to track. He also wanted to correct a statement in the Press Journal stating that the County has received this revenue. These funds are in the Sheriffs account. Undersheriff Tun Davis stated that the expense of feeding the out -of -county prisoners has never been included in the Sheriffs budget. He noted that the 1998-99 Sheriffs budget estimated the revenue at $1,222,700 and it will come in at about $1,119,000 to be returned to the County's general fund, not to support any of the Sheriffs programs. After going through the budget several times, they have been able to pare the request down to $68,000. SEPTEMBER 8, 1999 0