Council Agenda - City of Burbank

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Agenda Item - 6


 

 

                                               CITY  OF  BURBANK

                                             POLICE DEPARTMENT

                                                   MEMORANDUM

 

 

DATE: September 27, 2005
TO: Mary J. Alvord, City Manager
FROM: Thomas Hoefel, Chief of Police
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION TO THE CITY COUNCIL AMENDING THE FY 2005/2006 ANNUAL BUDGET FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO INCLUDE REVENUES RECEIVED FROM THE USE OF INMATE TELEPHONES


 

PURPOSE:

 

To appropriate funds already received from the City�s inmate pay telephone provider in the amount of $5,000.

 

BACKGROUND:

 

The California Penal Code, Section 4025, allows the City to deposit any money received from a telephone company or pay telephone provider that supplies phones to inmates, into an inmate welfare fund.  The Penal Code states that the use of these funds can only be for the benefit, education, and welfare of the inmates confined in the jail.

 

ANALYSIS:

 

The Burbank jail currently has 16 phones for which it receives revenues.  Inmate calls are made collect, and the City receives a percentage of the revenues. As of June 2005, the City of Burbank has received a total of $104,214 in inmate pay telephone revenues.  At this time, Staff recommends using $5,000 of this money to provide newspapers, toothbrushes, and other items that will benefit the inmates.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

 

Adoption of the proposed resolution will allow the City to appropriate pay telephone revenues already received.  The General Fund will be amended by appropriating $5,000 from Account 001-ND000-30001-1017 to Account 001-PD03A-70011-0000-15247.

 

RECOMMENDATION:

 

It is recommended that the City Council approve a resolution appropriating these funds totaling $5,000.

 

 

THOMAS HOEFEL

Chief of Police

 

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