State guidance says the county's 0.2% correctional/rehab tax fund can't pay for non-facility staff

What happened

A county staff member reported that the State Board of Accounts' general counsel confirmed the county's two-tenths-of-one-percent correctional and rehabilitation facility tax fund cannot pay for anything that isn't tied to a specific facility — including staff doing "dual diagnosis" mental health work — unless that work is based at an actual facility (1:42:52). The fund's use is set by a state statute that lets a county adopt an ordinance imposing that tax rate specifically for correctional and rehabilitation facilities (1:43:50).

The outcome

The committee confirmed it would need to fund that staffing request through the county general fund instead, since the correctional/rehab fund doesn't qualify (1:44:27).

Sources

• State Board of Accounts guidance reported, 1:42:52
• Statute text on the tax read aloud, 1:43:50
• Committee confirms it can't use that fund, 1:44:27

Also known as: correctional rehabilitation LIT fund · 0.2% facility tax · local income tax for jails · dual diagnosis staff funding