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Account	Description	FY07 GAA	FY08 House 1
8910-0000	County Correctional Programs For the operation of county correctional programs; provided, that the funds appropriated in this item shall be distributed among the counties by the county government finance review board; provided further, that funds appropriated in this item shall be expended for operating and debt service costs associated with the Plymouth county facility, under 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; provided further, that the sheriff of Plymouth county shall submit a report on the status of the repair and replacement fund for the correctional facility to the board by September 1, 2007, which shall include the fund balances at the end of fiscal year 2007, a description of any deposits to the fund, the amount of interest earned by the fund, and any expenditures planned for fiscal year 2008; provided further, that the funds distributed from this item shall be paid to the treasurer of each county who shall place the funds in a separate account within the treasury of each such county; provided further, that the treasurers shall authorize temporary transfers into those accounts for operation and maintenance of jails and houses of correction in advance of receipt of the amount distributed by the commonwealth from this item; provided further, that upon receipt of the commonwealth distribution, the treasurers may transfer out of such accounts an amount equal to the funds so advanced; provided further, that all funds deposited in such accounts and any accrued interest 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; provided further, that the sheriff's department of each county receiving funds from this item shall reimburse the treasurer of each county for personnel-related expenses, with the exception of salaries, attributable to the operations of the sheriff's department of each county previously paid by the county including, but not limited to, the cost of employee benefits; provided further, that on or before August 15, 2007, each county sheriff shall submit a spending plan for fiscal year 2008 to the board, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of each county correctional facility; provided further, that the spending plans shall be developed by the board, in consultation with the Massachusetts sheriffs' association; provided further, that all the spending plans shall be detailed by object class and object code in accordance with the expenditure classification requirements issued by the state comptroller; provided further, that the spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by each county correctional facility including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, collective bargaining unit, salary, and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that on or before September 15, 2007, the board shall have approved final fiscal year 2008 county correction budgets; provided further, that on or before October 15, 2007, each county sheriff shall submit a revised spending plan to the board which conforms in total with the amount of the fiscal year 2008 budget approved by the board; provided further, that failure by a county sheriff to comply with any provision of this item shall result in a reduction of subsequent quarterly payments to amounts consistent with a rate of expenditure of 95 per cent of the rate of expenditure for fiscal year 2007, as determined by the board; provided further, that services shall be provided to the extent determined to be possible within the amount of the fiscal year 2008 county correction budget as approved by the board, and each sheriff shall make all necessary adjustments to ensure that expenditures do not exceed the amount of his approved budget; provided further, that no sheriff shall purchase any new vehicles or major equipment in fiscal year 2008 unless the purchase is made under a multi-county or regionalized collaborative procurement arrangement or unless the purchase is directly related to significant population increase or is otherwise necessary to address an immediate and unanticipated public safety crisis and is approved by the county government finance review board and the executive office of public safety; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions contained in this item, sheriffs may purchase marked prisoner transportation vans, upon notification to the county government finance review board; provided further, that notwithstanding 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; provided further, that those revenues shall be retained by the sheriffs, not subject to further appropriation, for use in a canteen fund; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, no county treasurer shall retain revenues derived by the sheriffs from housing federal inmates; provided further, that those revenues shall be retained by the sheriffs, not subject to further appropriation, for general operation and maintenance of the jails and houses of correction; provided further, that each county shall expend during fiscal year 2008, 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 2007 for such purposes from own-source revenues; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of this item, the maintenance of effort obligations for Suffolk county shall be 4 per cent of the total fiscal year 2008 Suffolk county correction operating budget as approved by the county government finance review board	144,482,327	189,812,738

Consolidated with 1599-7092.

 
 

HISTORICAL SPENDING CATEGORIES ($000)

SPENDING CATEGORY	FY04 Expended	FY05 Expended	FY06 Expended	FY07 Projected Spending	FY08 House 1
Operating Expenses	3,180	3,416	3,948	3,614	3,622
Aid to Cities & Towns	167,800	169,572	180,165	148,011	186,191
TOTAL	170,980	172,988	184,113	151,624	189,813

* FY07 Projected Spending includes the budget plus nearly $1 billion in spending from FY06 supplemental budgets.