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For the period 2013-16, the Santa Ana City Jail processed an annual average of 7,134 local bookings which represented 595 each month or 20 per day. Nearly 61.7% of the average annual bookings involved felony detainees and 36.3% were defendants charged with misdemeanor offenses. The Jail also handled a small number of yearly bookings involving juveniles detained by local police agencies prior to their transfer to the County Juvenile Hall. Close review of the yearly jail booking trends shows that the detention facility has consistently experienced significant fluctuations in the average number of monthly bookings processed by jail personnel. Over the four year period between 2013-16, monthly bookings have ranged from a low of 482 to a high of 803. Jail misdemeanor and felony law enforcement bookings have also declined by -7.8% through 2016. Felony inmate bookings have decreased -11.9% while misdemeanor offense intakes / bookings declined -2.5%. In 2016, jail intakes / bookings averaged 18 per day which was the lowest number of average daily detainee bookings processed following initial construction of the Jail. Santa Ana City Jail Changes in Inmate Booking Trends 2013 -16 Percent Jail Bookings 2013 2016 Change Felony 4,555 4,015 -11.9% I Misdemeanor 2,503 2,440 -2:5% Juvenile 127 172 35.4% Total 7,185 6,627 -7.8% i In FY 2016-17, the Santa Ana City Jail's adopted operational budget totaled $18.4 million. Inmate housing contracts the City had negotiated with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, U. S. Marshal's Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency combined with jail kitchen rental fees, miscellaneous booking fees, and Jail Pay -to -Stay Program provided offsetting revenues of approximately $16.1 million. These offsetting budget revenue sources lowered the annual fiscal deficit for the detention facility to approximately $2.1 million plus reoccurring debt service which continues through 2024. In prior years, the operating fiscal deficit for the Jail had ranged from $3.5 to $5.1 million. This was in addition to the reoccurring debt service the City pays as a result of the financial arrangement entered into for the original design and construction costs for the Civic Center Plaza facility. This operating budget deficit historically has been covered through a general fund allocation reviewed by the City Manager's Office and annually approved by the City Council. Beginning in late 2016, the City Council and community's response to the continuing operation of the City's pretrial / sentenced jail custody detention facility came into question. It began to be seriously reconsidered, particularly as immigrant advocacy groups across California and throughout the U. S. more vocally started challenging Federal law enforcement apprehension / detention arrest policies involving individuals identified as "illegal" alien residents. California jurisdictions, particularly cities, initiated lawsuits, public protests, and took other steps to limit local jails cooperation and notification procedures to immigration enforcement agencies like ICE whenever these categories of incarcerated residents were housed in local detention facilities. Some jurisdictions have labeled their communities as "sanctuary cities" in greater defiance of the Federal detention notification requirements jail administrators traditionally have followed when handling ICE detainees. 32 65A-39