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File #: DC-4826    Version: 1
Type: Consent Action Status: Passed
File created: 8/15/2025 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 10/21/2025 Final action: 10/21/2025
Enactment date: 10/21/2025 Resolution #: 25-487
Title: Authorization To Execute Contracts For Community Corrections Services
Sponsors: Community Corrections
Attachments: 1. Outcomes, 2. Services Descriptions
DEPARTMENT: Community Corrections
FILE TYPE: Consent Action

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Authorization To Execute Contracts For Community Corrections Services
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize execution of contracts for Community Corrections services.

SUMMARY
Community Corrections supervises adults and juveniles placed on probation by the courts. Probation staff focuses on community safety and reducing recidivism in their supervision of these individuals. Supervision, services, and court-ordered programs are provided through specialized vendors (Attachment: Services Descriptions).

Staff recommends executing Community Corrections services contracts for the period of January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027 in the amounts listed as follows:

Electronic Monitoring Services:
Midwest Monitoring and Surveillance, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $390,000
* In 2024, 978 juvenile and adult clients were placed on monitoring devices
* Funding source: client pay/County levy
* Increased by $88,000 due to increased utilization

Drug Testing and Related Services:
RS Eden in an amount not to exceed $200,000
* In 2024, Community Corrections sent 5,000 samples
* Funding source: client pay/community supervision subsidy/County levy
* Increased by $50,000 due to cost increase to testing rates and supplies

Sex Offender Treatment Services:
Project Pathfinder, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $180,000
* In 2024, 25 Pre-Sentence Evaluations were completed
* Funding source: Department of Correction (DOC) Sex Offender grant/County levy
* No increase
Alpha Emergence Behavioral Health in an amount not to exceed $120,000
* On average, 30 clients per month
* Funding source: DOC Sex Offender grant/County levy
* No increase

Sex Offender Assessment Services:
Courtney Sturges Counseling and Consulting Services LLC in an amount not to exceed $132,150
* In 2024, 26 assessments were completed; year-to-date 2025, 15 assessments have been completed
* Funding source: DOC Sex Offender grant/County levy
* In...

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