Federal Detention Services Return to Comal County Jail

The initial obligation is the amount presently allotted to the task order. The document says the service provider may perform only up to the amount currently funded and that the government will not reimburse work beyond the allotment. Any additional funded service would therefore need to appear in later contract or payment records.

The prior order shows how a starting allotment and final value can diverge. It priced detention bed space at $100 per bed, began with $30,000 obligated and closed after federal officials removed $29,200. The resulting $800 final value is the documented outcome of that earlier contract, not a forecast for the new one.

County Action Comes Next

Commissioners are scheduled to consider the modification and ratify Sheriff Mark Reynolds's signature at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 3. The posted agenda places the meeting in the Commissioners Courtroom at 100 Main Plaza in New Braunfels and provides a three-minute citizen-comment period before the action agenda continues.

The next accountability measure is actual use. Invoices, bed-day summaries, funding modifications and payment records tied to task order 70CDCR26FIGR00126 can show how many federal detention services the county provides and how much money it receives during the contract year. Those records will make the comparison with the prior closeout meaningful.

Readers can inspect the federal order itself to verify the purpose, performance period and initial obligation before commissioners act. The county agenda provides the separate route for checking the scheduled ratification item, meeting location and public-comment instructions.