Agenda - 12-05-2016 - 6-a - Minutes

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5 -Justice Resource Office; 1 2 3 Chair McKee said he had talked with some judges, who also indicated a possible desire 4 for space. 5 Travis Myren said all stakeholders would be contacted. 6 7 Recommendations 8 • to receive an update on the Detention Center project schedule; 9 • to discuss and provide feedback to staff regarding a potential project scope expansion 10 to include co-located Law Enforcement Center facilities; and 11 • Should the Board reach a consensus on the project scope expansion, the Manager will 12 sign an amendment with Moseley Architects to analyze the implications of adding a Law 13 Enforcement Center to the current Detention Center project at a cost not to exceed 14 $30,000. 15 16 Commissioner Dorosin referred to the slide with possible co-location and its impacts, 17 and asked if this would be a co-location at the new jail or current Sheriff's space. 18 Travis Myren said the court administration would stay at the courthouse, and he said the 19 co-location questions would be if there are any impacts on court operations by moving the 20 administrative capacity of the Sheriff's office away from the court operations. 21 Commissioner Dorosin said a co-location and an un-colocation would occur, if the 22 change is made. 23 Travis Myren said both options need to be studied to get a balanced view. 24 Sheriff Blackwood said this would not be a wholesale pulling out of the Sheriff's office 25 from the courthouse, and he would like to talk to each Commissioner individually about current 26 operations in the Sheriff's office, and how they would change in a LEC co-location. He 27 reviewed how the operations located at the current court facility would move to the new 28 detention center. He said not having support staff in the new detention center would make 29 managing the inmates more difficult. He said his office would do its best wherever it is located. 30 Commissioner Jacobs asked Travis Myren if there will be a cost analysis done for future 31 co-location. 32 Travis Myren said both options would be studied: the immediately built law enforcement 33 center, and the infrastructure layout for future expansion. He said both could be studied 34 together or separately. 35 Commissioner Jacobs referred to the analysis of potential uses of the Law Enforcement 36 Center, and asked if probation and parole, the magistrate, etc. would also be co-located in the 37 detention facility regardless. 38 Travis Myren said with the current detention facility layout the Magistrates are included, 39 but Probation and Parole are not. 40 Commissioner Jacobs said he would like to see some support services, which would 41 benefit from being located near the jail population, included. 42 Sheriff Blackwood said the feedback he is getting from probation and parole is that they 43 are best located in the courthouse. 44 Commissioner Jacobs said he got the opposite information from one of the Judges. He 45 said he also has concern about the Sheriff's office not being in the courthouse. 46 Sheriff Blackwood said his department's work is not in the courthouse, but out in the 47 field.