039-96
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
A RESOLUTION OF THE
FREDERICK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
WHEREAS, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) via its report entitled
Funding Incentives for Reducing Jail Populations recommended during last years session of the General
Assembly to reduce per diem payments to jails housing federal prisoners as offsets for federal prisoner days
reimbursed for those jails; and
WHEREAS, the General Assembly adopted legislation that directs the Compensation Board to
recover and deposit into the general fund an overhead charge for each federal prisoner held in a local or
regional jail, effective July 1, 1997, and such overhead charge shall be at a daily rate per federal prisoner to
be determined by the Auditor of Public Accounts based on an indirect cost allocation study for each facility
housing federal prisoners; and
WHEREAS, the net effect of this legislation will potentially be to shift a substantial portion of
funding responsibility from State to the local level, and will do so at a time when fiscal pressures on localities
are great; and
WHEREAS, historically the per diem monies allocated by the State are utilized to meet the health,
welfare, and basic human needs of those prisoners confined in jail, and any reductions could hamper the
levels of those services currently provided; and
WHEREAS, the legislation effectively could severely weaken Virginia's longstanding commitment
to allocating necessary funding for Virginia's jails;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOL VED by the Frederick County Board of Supervisors that it
expresses its firm opposition to the referenced legislation; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOL VED that the Frederick County Board of Supervisors expresses its
opposition to any legislation or recommendation for revision of jail funding that would have the effect of
shifting substantial fmancial obligations to already overburdened local governments, and of placing local and
regional jails in a potentially adversarial relationship with their local governing bodies;
ADOPTED this 11th day of December, 199 y the members of the Frederick County Board of
Supervisors assembled in convention in the C ty ofF erick, Virginia, in testimony to which we have
affixed our signatures hereto.
RESOLUTION NUMBER: 039-1996