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35 <br /> December— 18 juveniles at intake (4 were RTA); 36 delinquent complaints; 3 undisciplined complaints; <br /> 19 school based complaints; 1 complaint approved for court; 6 complaints diverted; 5 complaints closed; <br /> 3 juveniles placed in detention for 29 days; 0 days used at Wrenn House; and 0 YDC admissions. <br /> January— 11 juveniles at intake (4 were RTA); 27 delinquent complaints; 0 undisciplined complaints; 11 <br /> school based complaints; 13 complaints approved for court; 0 complaints diverted; 0 complaint closed; 3 <br /> juvenile placed in detention for 28 days; 0 days used at Wrenn House; and 0 YDC admissions. <br /> The top offenses from January were communicating threats and simple assault. The more serious ones <br /> were robbery with a dangerous weapon (those were the 3 youth that were in detention). <br /> Q: Do you keep statistics on the age of youth (elementary,middle,high) and school district? <br /> A: Reports can only be run by the county so it would combine both Orange County and Chapel Hill- <br /> Carrboro City Schools. However, more complaints do come in from Orange County Schools. Some of <br /> this data can be obtained from their website and does provide a three year comparison. <br /> Consultant Update <br /> Thank you to Commissioner Fowler for sending up a resolution to Orange County Commissioners to <br /> support a step pay plan for juvenile justice staff. They did sign the resolution back in January and Deputy <br /> Secretary Billy Lassiter is currently gathering other county resolutions and data to bring to the General <br /> Assembly as they begin their session. <br /> Third Quarter accounting will be due March 24 so now is the time to look at your expenditures and <br /> budgets to make sure you are track with spending as planned. Also make sure that you are utilizing in- <br /> kind as that could generate a refund at final accounting. There is a possibility of discretionary funds that <br /> would be offered based on the refunds collected from last year's final accounting. <br /> There are a couple facilities that will be coming online by the end of the fiscal year. One is a transitional <br /> living facility in Wayne County that will join the male one in Craven and female one in North Hills, <br /> Raleigh. There is also an Eckerd male residential facility that is coming Caswell County that they've been <br /> working on for the last year and a half. <br /> Announcements <br /> Judge Pendergrass announced he will be coming off JCPC as Judge Cabe is working with the judges for <br /> each court to be on the corresponding committees. Judge Broun will be taking over as the JCPC <br /> representative and will bring a lot of knowledge and insight to the council. <br />