Do you serve on any budget committee to know if you can add jail capacity by "dipping" into the City Hall budget?

Jails: Public housing at about $150 day. "While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners."
How about a little more research on Santa Barbara? "Those ticketed homeless persons are steered to a voluntary six-month court program [with]social workers to help get them off the street, off police docks, off debilitating addictions and into housing. ...one of the restorative court’s biggest successes is Joel Escarcega, who lived on the skids for 17 years and cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars as he rotated between the street and multiple arrests. Police wrote him a whopping 747 citations before he got sober and placed in housing."
Santa Barbara uses a carrot and stick approach. If people just want to pay $150 a day for a stick for each person sent to jail, please pay your taxes.