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This expands available classroom and programming space at the Jail by nearly 40.0% compared to what is found in typical California jail facilities. Most of the movable furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FF&E) required for a transitional Jail community reentry facility has already been purchased and installed at the City Jail. The City will only have to incur an additional small expense in FF&E purchases for the expanded new 2,200 square foot classroom space which will be added to the Jail. Because the existing facility is already designed for the processing and housing of inmates and has been operating on a daily basis, the conversion of the quasi - outdoor recreation yard to classrooms and inmate programming space will only require a13 month schedule to conclude. Disadvantaoes (Weaknesses) The Jail lacks highly qualified reentry program specialists. The Jail will need to recruit and hire additional trained reentry specialists and contract with community-based service providers knowledgeable with the delivery of evidence - based inmate validated reentry assessments, cognitive behavioral therapy, and rehabilitative treatment for convicted offenders. - The City would continue to be responsible for the repayment of the annual debt service on the Jail building through 2024. In order to be able to offer expanded inmate programming at the facility, the City will have to incur a one-time project and construction cost of approximately $3.0 million expense for remodeling the recreation yard for conversion to classrooms and other programming areas. Opportunities - There is a need to build a continuum of reentry services that starts in the Jail and continues when local inmates transition into the community. Developing reentry services for inmates leaving jail reduces reoffending rates. - The reentry programming and services could be directed to sentenced offenders using a contract detention bed agreement with outside State and federal correctional agencies. Such an arrangement would lower the City's annual general fund allocation which must be made to the Jail's budget to support general staffing and detention facility operations. Negative Impacts (Threats) - There has been great community opposition to continue use of the existing building as a detention facility. Much of the opposition has surrounded the use of the building as an ICE -contracted facility. There will likely continue to be some vocal opposition to any use of the facility related to correctional or detention purposes. Contracting with outside correctional agencies for leased custody beds places the City in a position of continually being dependent upon the State or federal budgeting process for continuing contracts into future years. 84 65A-91