RESOLUTION NO.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY OF SAN MATEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO EXECUTE A NON-BINDING COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION (CDCR) AND THE COUNTY OF SAN MATEO TO JOINTLY PLAN FOR A STATE CONSTRUCTED SECURE REENTRY FACILITY IN CONJUNCTION WITH A NEW SAN MATEO COUNTY JAIL DESIGNED TO HOUSE AND PROVIDE INCREASED OFFENDER PROGRAMMING FOR TO HOUSE ADULT OFFENDERS.

 

    RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California, that

    WHEREAS, in May of this year Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill (AB) 900, the Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007; and

    WHEREAS, AB 900 fundamentally reforms California’s system of incarcerating and rehabilitating prisoners; and

    WHEREAS, AB 900 will provide funding for increased offender programming, authorization for 16,000 beds in secure reentry program facilities (SRPF), and an appropriation of $1.2 billion in jail construction funding through state lease revenue bonds; and

    WHEREAS, consideration of distribution of AB 900 funds will be given to those counties who have signed non-binding agreements to cooperate with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR); and

    WHEREAS, the agreement provides that the CDCR and the Office of the San Mateo County Sheriff shall jointly plan for a state constructed secure reentry facility in conjunction with a new San Mateo County Jail to house adult offenders; and

    WHEREAS, this Board has been presented with a form of such agreement and has examined and approved same as to both form and content, and desires to enter into same:

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED AND ORDERED THAT THE President of this Board of Supervisors be, and is hereby authorized to, execute a non-binding Cooperation Agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, for and on behalf of the County of San Mateo, and the Clerk of this Board of Supervisors shall attest the President’s signature thereto.

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