The 2019 budget was approved during the meeting of the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail Board held Dec. 28. The budget projects revenue at $2,889,750 and expenses at 2,889,029, for an ending balance of $730.
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Revenue
The proposed 2019 budget projects $311,000 in revenue coming from the commissary at the jail. Biggest money makers are the canteen $120,000; turnkey phone $98,000; e-cigarettes $45,000; and encartele $32,000.
Besides Daviess and DeKalb, the jail’s inmate reimbursements will come from Livingston County; Caldwell County; Sullivan County, Gentry County, the City of Chillicothe; and Putnam County. Total jail revenue is $1,781,800.
Expenses
Payroll, which is the jail’s biggest expense, is $1,361,000. Employee benefits include employee medical insurance at $360,000.
Big expenses for the jail include insurance, which is calculated at $104,000 for liability and $13,000 for property; total $117,000.
The cost of commissary goods is figured at $118,500.
Inmate housing total medical is $188,500 with the ACH Medical Plan taking $180,000 of that.
Jail tracker (offender and facility management software system) should cost around $19,000.
The cost to feed inmates is $328,350 with the cost of food taking $320,000 of that.
Total utilities is expected to be $130,250.
Sales tax
The jail’s income is calculated at $1,782,350. Its expenses come to $2,889,020, for a projected loss of over a million dollars ($1,095,170), if it were left to the jail to provide for itself.
However sales tax revenue will come to $1,107,400 in sales tax added to the jail’s income of $1,782,350, for a 2019 income of $2,889,750. Subtract the $2,889,020 in expenses and the jail should come ahead about $730.
View the entire 2019 Proposed Jail Budget online at gallatinorthmissourian.com.
In other business at the Dec. 28 meeting, Deputy Director Tim Carder gave the financial report, which the board accepted as follows: Sales tax revenue for November 2018, $101,530.68; Sales Tax balance $49,113.81; Commissary grossed $9,388.41 in December 2018; CD account 247 balance $245,821.49; CD account 977 balance $102,549.41; Operating Account balance $31,565.82; Payroll balance $528.08; Accounts Receivable $215,416.74; Accounts Payable $0.
The board received a breakdown of the current housing by agency.
Mr. Howard reported that the Shop With a Cop event was a success with 39 children participating. The name will be changed to Officers for Kids. Currently over $600 has been collected, which will go toward next year’s event.
Officer rotation for 2019 is as follows: Chairman Kyle Carroll, DeKalb County Presiding Commissioner; Vice Chairman Andy Clark, DeKalb County Sheriff; Secretary Ben Becerra, Daviess County Sheriff; Treasurer James Ruse, Daviess County Presiding Commissioner.
A Kawasaki Mule was purchased this month for $3,500.
The next board meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Jan. 25.
The above are the unapproved minutes of the Dec. 28 meeting of the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail. Present were Daviess County Presiding Commissioner James Ruse; Daviess County Sheriff Ben Becerra; DeKalb County Presiding Commissioner Harold Allison; DeKalb County Sheriff Andy Clark; Edmon Howard, Jr., director; Timothy Carder, deputy director; Lori Burke, administrative assistant.