COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS PARTNERSHIP
Meeting Date: December 12, 2025
Subject: FY 2025-26 Public Safety Realignment Community Corrections Budget
Presenter: Esa Ehmen-Krause, CCP Chair; Enid Mendoza, CCP Staff
Contact: Enid.Mendoza@cao.cccounty.us
Referral History:
In 2011, the State enacted the AB 109 Public Safety Realignment Act, which diverts the custody housing and supervision of individuals convicted of certain state prison offenses to the local county level. It also directs the State to give counties a portion of sales and vehicle license fee revenue to fund the realigned responsibilities from the State to the counties.
The State’s Community Corrections allocation formula is composed of a Base allocation and a Growth allocation. The Base allocation is derived from current year sales tax and vehicle license fee (VLF) funding, and the current year Growth allocation is derived from prior year actual sales tax and VLF funding from the State. Since passage of AB 109, the Growth allocation has been more volatile than the Base allocation due to varying economic factors.
The Growth allocation formula is based on 80% felony probation rates (60% felony probation success rates, 20% year-over-year felony probation improvement for counties showing improvement) and 20% incarceration rates (10% county reduction in year-over-year overall prison admission, 10% county success measured by per-capita rate of prison admissions).
Although the County has accumulatively benefited from AB 109 Community Corrections Growth allocations over the years, they have ranged from no growth allocation (County FY 2024-25 ) to a little over $5 million (County FY 2022-23).
For reference, Attachment A provides a 6-year Base and Growth allocation summary for each county from FY 2020-21 to FY 2025-26.
In preparation for the County’s budget development activities, which begin the first week of January annually, the AB 109 Community Corrections budget activities begin in the fall of the prior calendar year to ensure timely approvals. The AB 109 Community Corrections Partnership budget is included in the County’s annual recommended budget, upon approval of the Community Corrections Partnership - Executive Committee in December and review by the Board’s Public Protection Committee no later than mid-February. A detailed budget schedule is included in Attachment B.
Referral Update:
On November 7, 2025, the Community Corrections Partnership - CCP Executive Committee held its FY 2026-27 budget workshop, allowing funded departments and agencies the opportunity to present and discuss their budget proposals. Questions were raised regarding budgets with the greater budget increases than most. The MHET and Courts increases were primarily due to the need to right-size prior year budgets that did not account for the total cost of funding the positions working on the AB 109 community corrections program. The Courts and PD desired to make minor changes to their program narratives to clarify the increase and provided those updates to the County Administrator’s Office for inclusion in today’s updated budget attachments. The following documents included in the Partnership’s November meeting are once again being provided for FY 2026-27 budget approval, and forwarded to the Public Protection Committee and Board of Supervisors:
1. Attachment C - a summary of the expenditure categories as budged in current year and a breakdown of baseline FY 2026-27, FY 2026-27 budget modifications, and total FY 2026-27 budget allocation requests, by department program area.
2. Attachment D - a compilation of all department budget submissions including a budget narrative, more detailed budget categories, and details on planned contracted services.
3. Attachment E - a summary of the percentage change between the proposed and current year budgets and the information provided by departments to explain the change.
Overall, department proposals reflect budgets prudent to community corrections revenue limitations. Even with the considerations given, the proposed budget allocation for all programs is approximately $5.6 million over the anticipated revenue.
Today’s meeting is an opportunity for the CCP-Executive Committee to deliberate further on the proposed departmental budgets and vote on FY 2026-27 budget allocations. Only members of the Executive Committee may vote on budgetary actions.
Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):
ADOPT Fiscal Year 2026-27 AB 109 Public Safety Realignment Community Corrections budget as submitted by operating departments, and forward to the Public Protection Committee for review prior to inclusion in the County’s FY 2026-27 Recommended Budget.
Fiscal Impact:
If approved as submitted, the FY 2026-27 budget will result in funding allocation recommendations totaling $43,645,862, which would require an approximate use of fund balance allocation of $5.5 million over the anticipated State revenue. Though the fund’s reserve has sufficient fund balance to cover the amount to balance the operating departments’ expenditure plan, it is important to recognize that ongoing expenditure increases will put pressure on the known flat Base allocation and overall fund balance reserves in the upcoming years.