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Local TX probation faces large, unexpected shortfall

The amount budgeted by the Texas Legislature for basic probation funding in 2010 has fallen short, and state and local probation officials are scrambling to find a solution. A probation official and friend of the blog sends the following note which explained the problem well:There is an unprecedented funding crisis for adult probation in Texas. At the end of every fiscal biennium, the 122 CSCDs in the state return their unspent state funds to TDCJ-CJAD. The Legislative Budget Board counts on those refunds to fund part of the budget line for the first year of the following biennium.Based on past refunds, the LBB calculated in March of 2009, that the CSCDs would be refunding 19.8 million dollars. Since the economy went south in 2009, there was not much turnover in staff at the CSCDs (which is generally the main reason CSCDs have leftover money), so the refunds totaled only $13...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).