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SECTION 1: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />Santa Ana City Jail Reuse Feasibility Study <br />Santa Ana is the second largest city in Orange County and the eleventh largest in California. The City <br />Council's Strategic Plan Alignment effort focuses on two major goals: (1) community safety, and (2) <br />providing high quality police and fire / emergency medical services within the City of Santa Ana. Based <br />on extensive community and City Council discussions, the Vanir consultant team was selected and <br />tasked with evaluating five Jail reuse feasibility options for the Santa Ana Jail facility and making <br />recommendations to the City Council. The consultant team included experienced (a) jail designers, (b) <br />architects, (c) a former United States Bureau of Prisons Building Chief, and (d) Criminal Justice Research <br />Foundation. <br />The Jail is located at 60 Civic Center Plaza in downtown Santa Ana <br />In FY 2016-17, the Santa Ana City Jail's adopted operational budget totaled $18.4 million. Inmate <br />housing contracts the City had negotiated with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, U. S. Marshal's Service, <br />and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency combined with jail kitchen rental fees, <br />miscellaneous booking fees, and Jail Pay -to -Stay Program provided offsetting revenues of approximately <br />$16.1 million. These offsetting budget revenue sources lowered the annual fiscal deficit for the detention <br />facility to approximately $2.1 million plus reoccurring debt service which continues through 2024. <br />In prior years, the operating fiscal deficit for the Jail had ranged from $3.5 to $5.1 million. This was in <br />addition to the reoccurring debt service the City pays as a result of the financial arrangement entered into <br />for the original design and construction costs for the Civic Center Plaza facility. This operating budget <br />deficit historically has been covered through a general fund allocation reviewed by the City Manager's <br />Office and annually approved by the City Council. <br />Beginning in late 2016, the City Council and community's response to the continuing operation of the <br />City's pretrial / sentenced jail custody detention facility came into question. It began to be seriously <br />reconsidered, particularly as immigrant advocacy groups across California and throughout the country <br />65A-8 <br />