OTHER-2023-042-NC Department of Public Safety Juvenile Crime Prevention Council Certification

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JJ Data Update There is no data to present this month because Amanda has been out and unable to run the reports : However, they do have some staff updates to provide . One of the supervisors recently left to go to another district, Paige Walsh is the Intake Court Counselor, and Derek Fitz recently joined at the beginning of the month and will be taking over some of the Orange cases . Last month they received about 3540 new intake cases and Paige has been booked with at least two intakes per day for the last month and a half and they are still gaining more numbers this month . They are trying to get more staff into the office help . While Amanda wasn ' t able to run specific stats , common offenses are stolen vehicles , communicating threats , and assaults ; there have also been a lot of gun possession charges going along with these other offenses . Q : Do we have a sense of where under 18 are accessing guns ? A : There really isn ' t a definite answer. There are some robberies of homes , people leaving vehicles unlocked, and ghost guns being ordered online . Caitlin Fenhagen with Orange County Criminal Justice Resource Department provided an update on an initiative they are looking to bring to Orange County that is modeled from Durham ' s Project Build . Project Build is not interested in seeking any JCPC funding because they are a county funded program in Durham and if they are going to have any of their staff come over here it would have to be as a county employee . Caitlin included Project Build in her department ' s budget request for next fiscal year with a lot of support from stakeholders , but unfortunately the manager ' s budget is very tight next year and so they are in the process of trying to see if they can potentially get funding from ABC Board , early intervention funds from opioid funds and Chapel Hill PD funds . Chapel Hill and Carrboro police departments both feel strongly that the program is needed . It would provide intensive case management in the homes , communities , and schools for high-risk teens . Q . Is there an opportunity to get JCPC funding if Project Build was a county program ? Is that doable, has it been done somewhere else ? A : It can be done . There are other JCPC programs that are run by the county with blended funding . The county acts as the program manager and the employee is written into the grant and all the programming expenses is also part of the budget . But it all comes down to the RFP and we are already past that phase in the year and so we ' d have to look at for FY24- 25 planning . Minutes Review and Approval The Council reviewed the minutes from the regular February 2023 meeting . Joal Broun motioned for minutes to be approved and was seconded by Sharron Hinton . Gayane Chambless would like to make an amendment to the minutes because her intention at the meeting was to send a Doodle poll for the RED committee , not the Funding committee . The mover accepts the amendment to the minutes . Motion passed unanimously . The Council reviewed the minutes from the special February 2023 meeting . Joal Broun motioned for minutes to be approved and was seconded by Crista Collazo . Motion passed unanimously . Gayane Chambless abstained from voting . JCPC Business Budget Revision presentations — Exchange Club — The revision is due to lapse salary adjustment . Sharron Hinton motioned for budget amendment to be approved and was seconded by Laurie Williamson . Motion passed unanimously . Reintegration Support Network — Due to change in staff members , they needed to update the budget for staff salary and FICA . They are also proposing the addition of a new line items to help with interpretation and translation services , advertising their JCPC program services , and an IT assessment to