Revenues from farming in prisoners lower than expected
NORWICH – Revenues anticipated from boarding out-of-county prisoners at the Chenango County Public Safety Facility are considerably down.
Sheriff Ernest Cutting told members of the Safety and Rules Committee Wednesday that the corrections department has brought in only $70,000 of the $450,000 budgeted for the year. The amount budgeted was $100,000 more than in 2008 as a result of boarding-in revenues that topped a surprising $1 million last year.
Times have changed drastically. Farmed-in prisoner tallies are down across New York, Cutting said, with 226 farmed out currently compared to 400 at this point a year ago.
The three year-old Chenango County Public Safety Facility can house a total of 133 prisoners, but has averaged only 75 for the first six months of the year. The jail previously averaged 90 prisoners a day.
There were 73 incarcerated as of Thursday, including 17 farmed in inmates. Last year, an average of 40 hailed from other counties.
To cut operations costs, a jail pod containing 20 cells was recently shut down. Staff levels remain the same, however, as mandated by the New York State Office of Corrections. There are more than 60 corrections officers and sergeants on staff. The Sheriff said overtime and extra hire expenses were being scrutinized “to make some of it (the revenue losses) up.”
Chenango County took in more than $1 million in revenues from farming in last year and nearly $727,000 in 2007. Both year’s results exceeded budgeted amounts. Last year, the county was able to apply $600,000 of the overage to the general fund in order to help keep the levy down.
Treasurer William E. Evans said anytime a revenue doesn’t meet expectations, the general fund could be affected. “They have, in the past, returned a significant revenue to the general fund,” he said. The treasurer said he preferred to look at a what he called a “more fair” total of the average increase over projections accumulated over the last three years than to look at this year’s number alone.
Operations at the jail are primarily afforded by sales tax collections. Those figures, however, are currently also down by 12 percent over this time last year.
“If he (Sheriff Cutting) doesn’t make it, we are hopeful with sales tax and other revenues that the Sheriff brings in, that we could overcome some or possibly all of that,” Evans said.
Sheriff Ernest Cutting told members of the Safety and Rules Committee Wednesday that the corrections department has brought in only $70,000 of the $450,000 budgeted for the year. The amount budgeted was $100,000 more than in 2008 as a result of boarding-in revenues that topped a surprising $1 million last year.
Times have changed drastically. Farmed-in prisoner tallies are down across New York, Cutting said, with 226 farmed out currently compared to 400 at this point a year ago.
The three year-old Chenango County Public Safety Facility can house a total of 133 prisoners, but has averaged only 75 for the first six months of the year. The jail previously averaged 90 prisoners a day.
There were 73 incarcerated as of Thursday, including 17 farmed in inmates. Last year, an average of 40 hailed from other counties.
To cut operations costs, a jail pod containing 20 cells was recently shut down. Staff levels remain the same, however, as mandated by the New York State Office of Corrections. There are more than 60 corrections officers and sergeants on staff. The Sheriff said overtime and extra hire expenses were being scrutinized “to make some of it (the revenue losses) up.”
Chenango County took in more than $1 million in revenues from farming in last year and nearly $727,000 in 2007. Both year’s results exceeded budgeted amounts. Last year, the county was able to apply $600,000 of the overage to the general fund in order to help keep the levy down.
Treasurer William E. Evans said anytime a revenue doesn’t meet expectations, the general fund could be affected. “They have, in the past, returned a significant revenue to the general fund,” he said. The treasurer said he preferred to look at a what he called a “more fair” total of the average increase over projections accumulated over the last three years than to look at this year’s number alone.
Operations at the jail are primarily afforded by sales tax collections. Those figures, however, are currently also down by 12 percent over this time last year.
“If he (Sheriff Cutting) doesn’t make it, we are hopeful with sales tax and other revenues that the Sheriff brings in, that we could overcome some or possibly all of that,” Evans said.
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