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Budget Recommendations
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Outside Section 409
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County Corrections Funding
SECTION 409.
Funds appropriated in item 8910-0000 of section 2 of this act shall be distributed among the counties by the county government finance review board. Funds appropriated in said item shall be expended for operating and debt service costs associated with the Plymouth county facility, pursuant to the provisions of clauses 3 and 4 of the memorandum of agreement signed May 14, 1992, between the commonwealth and Plymouth county, as amended on February 16, 1999. The funds distributed from said item shall be paid to the treasurer of each county who shall place such funds in a separate account within the treasury of each such county. Said treasurers shall authorize temporary transfers into said accounts for operation and maintenance of jails and houses of correction in advance of receipt of the amount distributed by the commonwealth from that item. Upon receipt of the commonwealth distribution, said treasurers may transfer out of such accounts an amount equal to the funds so advanced. All funds deposited in such accounts and any interest accruing thereto shall be used solely for the functions of the sheriffs' departments of the various counties including, but not limited to, maintenance and operation of jails and houses of correction, without further appropriation. The sheriff's department of each county shall reimburse the treasurer of each such county for personnel-related expenses, with the exception of salaries, attributable to the operations of the sheriff's department of each county heretofore paid by the county including, but not limited to, the cost of employee benefits. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, no county treasurer shall retain revenues derived by the sheriffs from commissions on telephone service provided to inmates or detainees. Said revenues shall be retained by the sheriffs, not subject to further appropriation, for use in a canteen fund, so called. Each county shall expend during fiscal year 2005, for the operation of county jails and houses of correction and other statutorily authorized facilities and functions of the office of the sheriff, in addition to the amount distributed from this item, not less than 102.5 per cent of the amount expended in fiscal year 2004 for such purposes from own-source revenues. The department of public health shall notify the county government finance review board and the state comptroller of the costs of all services provided to inmates of county correctional facilities by Lemuel Shattuck hospital that are to be paid from item 8910-0010. Not more than 30 days after receiving such notification, said board shall certify to the comptroller the amount of such costs to be charged to this item. Upon receiving such certification, the comptroller shall effect the transfer of such amount from item 8910-0010 to item 4590-0915 of said section 2. Actual and projected payments for all such services provided by said hospital shall be considered expenditures within each county spending plan and shall be reflected as such.
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