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5 <br /> -"Backfill" options for 3 <br /> Analysis of Potential Uses <br /> vacated LEC facilities -Child Support Services; <br /> -Probation and Parole; <br /> -Public Defender; <br /> -District Attorney; <br /> -Justice Resource Office; <br /> Chair McKee said he had talked with some judges, who also indicated a possible desire <br /> for space. <br /> Travis Myren said all stakeholders would be contacted. <br /> Recommendations <br /> • to receive an update on the Detention Center project schedule; <br /> • to discuss and provide feedback to staff regarding a potential project scope expansion <br /> to include co-located Law Enforcement Center facilities; and <br /> • Should the Board reach a consensus on the project scope expansion, the Manager will <br /> sign an amendment with Moseley Architects to analyze the implications of adding a <br /> Law Enforcement Center to the current Detention Center project at a cost not to exceed <br /> $30,000. <br /> Commissioner Dorosin referred to the slide with possible co-location and its impacts, <br /> and asked if this would be a co-location at the new jail or current Sheriff's space. <br /> Travis Myren said the court administration would stay at the courthouse, and he said <br /> the co-location questions would be if there are any impacts on court operations by moving the <br /> administrative capacity of the Sheriff's office away from the court operations. <br /> Commissioner Dorosin said a co-location and an un-colocation would occur, if the <br /> change is made. <br /> Travis Myren said both options need to be studied to get a balanced view. <br /> Sheriff Blackwood said this would not be a wholesale pulling out of the Sheriff's office <br /> from the courthouse, and he would like to talk to each Commissioner individually about current <br /> operations in the Sheriff's office, and how they would change in a LEC co-location. He <br /> reviewed how the operations located at the current court facility would move to the new <br /> detention center. He said not having support staff in the new detention center would make <br /> managing the inmates more difficult. He said his office would do its best wherever it is located. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs asked Travis Myren if there will be a cost analysis done for <br /> future co-location. <br /> Travis Myren said both options would be studied: the immediately built law enforcement <br /> center, and the infrastructure layout for future expansion. He said both could be studied <br /> together or separately. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs referred to the analysis of potential uses of the Law Enforcement <br /> Center, and asked if probation and parole, the magistrate, etc. would also be co-located in the <br /> detention facility regardless. <br /> Travis Myren said with the current detention facility layout the Magistrates are included, <br /> but Probation and Parole are not. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said he would like to see some support services, which would <br /> benefit from being located near the jail population, included. <br /> Sheriff Blackwood said the feedback he is getting from probation and parole is that they <br /> are best located in the courthouse. <br />