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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 02-26-2009 PUBLIC SAFETY COORDINATING COUNCIL Minutes of Meeting February 26, 2009 Convened: Adjourned: 3:45 p.m.4:20 p.m. CALL TO ORDER Bruce Colton called the meeting to order at 3:45 p.m. in Conference Room # 3, 2300 Virginia Avenue, Fort Pierce, Florida. ROLL CALL Roll call was taken. Members Present: Bruce Colton, State Attorney th Tom Genung for Chief Judge Roby, 19 Circuit John Romano, New Horizons of the Treasure Coast Major Stephen Reuther for Ken Mascara, Sheriff of SLC Major Pat Tighe, SLC Sheriff’s Office Janet Collins, SLC Bail Bond Association Thomas Mark, Department of Corrections Diamond Litty, Public Defender Members Absent: Commissioner Chris Craft th Judge Philip J. Yacucci, 19 Circuit Suzanne Caudell, CORE Program Others Present: Mark Godwin, SLC Criminal Justice Coordinator Lisa Savage, SLC Pretrial Manager Kevin Lapham, SLC Pretrial Trevor Morganti, SLC Sheriff’s Office Joe Smith, Clerk of the Courts Theresa Bailey, SAMH Ethel Rowland, Taxpayer Dan Rodgers, DJJ – Circuit 19 Kevin Housel, DJJ - Detention Candice Coghill, HAS – St. Lucie JAC Chris Harris, Magellan Health APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The minutes from the January 29, 2009 meeting were unanimously approved. Public Safety Coordinating Council February 26, 2009 Page 2 UPDATE by CRIMINAL JUSTICE COORDINATOR-MARK GODWIN: Mark thanked Bruce Colton on behalf of Commissioner Craft. Commissioner Craft is in Washington, DC. Mark introduced Dan Rodgers, Kevin Housel, and Candice Coghill. JAC is run by a private vendor. The private vendor has indicated by mid-year even though the funding has been allocated they need an additional $100,000 from the County. Mark said after speaking with Miss Outlaw and her directors, he has been authorized to begin a business plan for Miss Outlaw and she will either give the green light or red light to take it to the Board in order for the County to assume the responsibilities of the Juvenile Assessment Center. Dan Rodgers said this is not an unfunded mandate that they would be asking the County to assume. There is funding. They have been interested in partnering with SLC Government for some time now and there is a model down in Miami Dade County they would like to replicate here. Mark said part of the business plan is to reach out to the other three counties and we can do it two ways. We can look at it at how many children are being brought to the JAC center by law enforcement agencies and do a charge per child but on the other hand we can look at it like we did in court administration. They have County funded positions that are funded by all four counties. They broke it down by population percentages. Bruce Colton asked if the business plan will include contributions from the other counties. Mark said yes. Major Tighe said population is down. Today’s count is 1542. We usually see an increase in the months of January thru August. With all the foreclosures people are leaving the County. Major Tighe said we received re-accreditation from the Florida Corrections Accreditation Commission. We successfully completed 100% of all the 247 standards. This is our third accreditation. Major Tighe said in 2008 – 100 graduated from culinary, 204 received their GED’s – 190 went through the Substance Abuse Program. JUDICIAL UPDATE: Tom Genung said Metatronics the company that did the JIS System that First Appearance is using, Tom would like that system to collect information from the sheriff, clerk and from other systems through out the state to identify where defendants are. Public Safety Coordinating Council February 26, 2009 Page 3 NEW BUSINESS: John Romano sent letters to our Congressmen, the President and Governor Christ asking for “shovel ready money”. We are building a twenty bed crises stabilization unit for kids and we are shovel ready. We are proceeding with a loan. Total project will cost about $5,000,000 give/or take and we fit the criteria for a “shovel ready project”. Would appreciate if the Council could provide a letter of support and John would be happy to draft the letter. ADJOURNMENT: Bruce Colton adjourned the meeting at 4:20 p.m. Submitted by, Carol Strobert THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE HELD March 26, 2009