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Fiscal Policy Center Toolkit: How to Retain Funds for Youth Programming From the Sale of Lease of Juvenile Facilities
Fiscal Policy Center Toolkit: How to Retain Funds for Youth Programming From the Sale of Lease of Juvenile Facilities
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
Jul. 12, 2012
ANNOTATION: “The goal of this toolkit is to help advocates ensure that at least a portion of funds garnered through facility closures remains in the juvenile justice system … The best way to guarantee that the proceeds of a sale or lease are not simply absorbed into the state’s general fund is through statute. This toolkit will guide you through the process of drafting a bill—on your own or with the assistance of your legislature’s bill drafters—that will require your state to capture some or all of the proceeds from the sale of a closed facility and invest them in youth programming” (p. 2). Steps in drafting the statute are: study certain issues; establish a fund; and general considerations in drafting the bill. Model statutory language is also given for changes or additions to existing procurement/disposal/surplus property statutes and for a new code (the establishment if a “Safe Kids Fund”).
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