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the county an average of $65.00 per day to incarcerate an individual. To incarcerate figceen (I 5) non-custodial parents for thirty (30) days each would cost Cabarrus County $ 29,250.00. The n/ne-hundred and fourteen (914) hours of community service performed by the fifteen (15) individuals when valued at a custodian's wage of $7.94 per hour amounts to $ 7,257.16. These three figures added together, the savings of the Child Support Agent's time, the savings of incarceration and the value of service rendered that the County would otherwise have paid for, brings the savings to the County of $ 37,158.36 in the last three months of 2000 when the project was implemented. Using the savings figure for the three-month period, resutts in a projected annual savings of $148,633.44 for Cabarrus County. The impact of the project is that it made available over thirty seven thousand dollars ($ 37,000) to the county to use that would not have been available if the normal procedure of incarceration of delinquent non-custodial parents would have continued to be implemented. Also, the time saved for the Child Support Agents amounts to thirty eight (38) man hours available to enforce other cases. Another impact is the effect that offering the alternative to incarceration had on the attitudes and the behavior of the non-custodial parents. There have been several cases where the parent is now working regularly and paying the ordered support on a consistent basis which makes it much easier for the custodial parent to budget and provide for the needs of the child. Finally, community agencies, local governments, schools, and parks have and will continue to derive a financial benefit from The Side by Side Project. 3 Attachments in support of Side By Side D,,por-tmcnl'. of Social $¢wices 1303 5outh Cannon Blvd. Kannc~polis, NC 28083 C704) 920-1400