Monroe County councilors from left: Jennifer Crossley, Kate Wiltz, and Peter Iversen.
A member of Care Not Cages, a group that opposes construction of a new jail.
Justice fiscal advisory committee (JFAC) meeting on Sept. 18, 2023
At its final scheduled session on Monday night, Monroe County’s justice fiscal advisory committee (JFAC) slogged through 35 recommendations on a new jail facility, which it had developed over the course of seven meetings starting in early June.
The committee’s recommendations are advice on pre-architectural topics falling into broad categories: procedural matters; system-wide improvements; community services; re-entry; community corrections; diversity, equity, and inclusion; treatment; and the jail itself.
The funding recommendations remain just a list of possible sources, which include the innkeepers tax, and the food and beverage tax—which are unlikely, if not impossible, sources to fund jail programing, support services, or jail construction.
No dollar amounts are included for the amount of money that could be generated for jail construction and operations through enacting an additional rate in the corrections category of local income tax.
But on Monday, the three council councilors who are the voting members of the committee—Jennifer Crossley, Kate Wiltz, and Peter Iversen—did not take a vote to adopt their report. They want to allow time for the edited recommendations, which in some cases have been consolidated, to sit in public view and be digested—until the full county council’s next meeting, on Tuesday Sept. 26.
The edited recommendations are supposed to be posted on the JFAC’s website.
The idea is that on Sept. 26, in the context of the full council meeting, the three-member committee will take a vote to adopt the recommendations. Continue reading “Fiscal committee edits pre-design advice to county council on new jail, funding still question mark” →