Chapter 5 – Adult Custody and Security Operations

51130.31.2 Cash Reimbursement

• Reimbursement for costs borne by the Department shall include:

  • The payment of emergency overtime hourly rate per inmate as agreed between cooperating agency and the Department. Such payment shall include:

    • The time traveled to and from the fire.

    • From the facility.

    • All work time and off-duty time between work periods on or near the fire.

  • All Department employees’ payroll costs in connection with a specific fire. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Custodial coverage.

  • Transportation.

  • Employees’ time for supervision and administration, delivering supplies, transporting sick or injured inmates.

  • Disciplinary problems with inmates.

  • Preparing and serving meals to inmates leaving for or returning from fires at irregular hours.

  • Employees’ standby time when called in to prepare fire crews for dispatch and the standby is subsequently canceled.

  • All invoices submitted to the cooperating agency by the Department for activities contemplated hereunder shall be computed in accordance with the SAMState Administrative Manual 8760. Invoices shall be submitted to the cooperating agency in the district for which services were performed on a specific individual fire basis, in a form agreed to by the cooperating agency and the Department, and shall be submitted within 60 days of the cessation of activities contemplated hereunder.