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Springfield Muni Court), utilizing no General Fund dollars. General Funded jail operations include booking and release, jail records, DOMC operations and a total of 151 beds for local offenders. Reduction - Reduce capacity to house local offenders. Lane County's options for additional beds are: Level 4 Funding - Add 48 beds to operate 45 beds for local offenders at the County's General Fund cost of $1,113,385 releases generated from the jail bed cuts alone would increase by approximately 569 offenders annually. Level 5 Funding -Add 35 beds to operate 32 beds for local offenders at the County's General fund cost of $946,612. Level 6 Funding -Add 49 beds to operate 46 beds for local offenders at the County's General Fund cost of $884,394. Urban/Rural Impacts: ? More than 4,000 offenders are released early each year due to a lack of jail operating capacity. ? It is estimated that capacity-based releases generated from the jail bed cuts alone would increase by approximately 569 offenders annually. Community Corrections Center Alternative Corrections Programs Reductions/Eliminations: ? 60 out of 93 beds at the Community Corrections Center are scheduled for closure. ? Up to 2,491 of the 3,037 sentenced and sanctioned offenders would be capacity-based releases without serving sentences. Of the 546 who are serving their sentences, only about 60 of them would be able to serve their sentence in an “in-custody” bed at the CCC. The other 486 would be released to the community either on the Electronic Surveillance Program, or the DOMC Sit-In program. ? This reduction would eliminate much of the revenue the CCC generates each year through the fees collected from the participants in the program. ? Eliminate Community Service program which manages an average of 400 offenders each day. h:\data\cao\sp\08027Impacts/T 4