Idaho Association of County Juvenile Justice Administrators

Agenda  Dec 12, 2001  Owyhee Plaza in Boise

1000 hrs.                          Call To Order                        President

 Present:  John Triplett, Chuck Jones, Doug Brown, Levi Wullenwaber, Mike Stallcup, JT Taylor, Debbie Stallcup, Al Friesen, Nadine MacDonald, Kipp Dana, Brian Walker, Lennart Nivegaard, Janelle Schneider, Lynda Pollock, Steve Jett, Brent Reinke, Shelly Smith, Ted Knudsen, Ross Edmunds, Valerie Hoybjerg, Bill Lasley, Seth Scott, Matt Olsen, Don Garner

 Review/approval of minutes--President   It was motioned by Steve Jett and seconded by Debbie Stallcup that we accept the minutes from the previous meeting.  Unanimously passed.

 Treasurer’s Report—Don Garner, Treasurer  There is $2730.73 in our account.  Don had some invoices to pass out for membership dues, and invoices will also go out with minutes.  Several counties have already paid their dues. 

 DHW Update--Ross Edmonds  There has been a change in the DHW administration.  Roseanne Hardin has resigned and Ken Diver is the new head.  He has been at the ISSH. 

 The Mental Health Crisis Response task force met yesterday and formalized their recommendations.  Those recommendations will go to the ICCMH for review and approval.  Training for law enforcement in the area of mental health necessary because they are usually the first responder to an incident involving a mentally ill individual. 

 Committee Reports--Committee Reps

                        Board of Juvenile Corrections  Steve Jett attended the last Board Meeting, and Mike Stallcup attended the prior meeting.  Holdbacks were discussed, along with the DJC’s loss of personnel. 

                         Youth and Justice Advisory Committee  Commissioner Hoybjerg talked about the Advisory Committee meetings.  They are held as needed, and the committee has produced a CD on pornography and it effects.  If you have not received it, it is available by contacting IAC or the county commissioners.  IJOS system was talked about.  More and more counties are accessing IJOS.  Next meeting will be in Boise at the IAC Winter Conference in February.  Contact Bill Lasley if you are planning to attend.

                         ICCMH  Local Councils (regional councils) are due to be in place by March.  At this point orientations are being held around the state at this time.  Makeup of the councils was discussed.  Next hearing for the Jeff D suit will be in March.  Doug Brown spoke of the organization of the local and regional councils. 

                         Other Committees 

                        IJOS Board.  Nadine talked about the training that was held last Friday for IJOS District Trainers.  There was a presentation given to the Board also. The number of counties now using IJOS is at 24.  At the meeting, Mike Seifert spoke on the interface with JCMS.  District Trainers should be available by January for any counties requesting training.  The governors initiative IDANET should help reduce costs of running access lines to several remote counties.  Internet version of IJOS being tested.  List of trainers can be obtained by calling Nadine.  Bill Lasley may have a list of trainers by the end of the meeting.  (Bill did pass out the list of trainers later in the meeting.)

                         IAC/Commissioner’s update                        Commissioner Hoybjerg/IAC rep  Training Council has presented a plaque for Doug Brown’s service on the JJ Training Council.  Commissioner Hoybjerg spoke of Doug’s contribution to the training of staff and the dramatic effect that his service has had on the lives of the children that are served by those who are trained.   

Counties and courts are meeting to discuss shared employees, such as juv. probation, detention, bailiffs, etc.  Region VI’s joint powers agreement is being examined first.  Progress has been made in this project.  Next meeting will be on Feb 8.  After detention is taken care of, probation, bailiffs, etc will be examined.  ICRMP is involved in the process.  A copy of the model agreement may be available as soon as several issues are ironed out, but not before their next meeting. 

 By laws of the IACJJA were brought up by Commissioner Hoybjerg.  IAC has some suggested changes.  The changes cannot be made at this meeting by the limitations of our existing bylaws.  These changes shall be brought up at the next meeting.  Some of the changes were talked about.  The changes have to be approved at the Jan 9^th meeting, and then ratified by IACC.  Steve will get changes to IAC immediately after the Jan meeting to be distributed to the IACC for their information before the IACC 2/5 meeting at the Boise Doubletree Riverside. 

 P.O.S.T. Training Council Update    Doug Brown, Al Friesen  Al discussed several things pertaining to the Training Council.  The Challenge packet should be coming soon for Probation Officers.  The opinion of many of the officers that have been through the training is that the experience that they had at the academy was very positive.  He also talked about the job task analysis for detention.  The Council desires that most of the participants on the analysis be line staff with a few supervisors, a good mix of gender is also desired. Al requested that administrators volunteer some staff for the four full days of the analysis during February.  A sign up sheet was distributed. 

 New addition at P.O.S.T. will begin in July 2002. 

 A question on compliance monitoring was raised.  The outcome is that compliance monitoring will remain with DJC. 

 General Administrator Discussion Topics

• Code of Ethics changes—Steve Jett  Steve raised a concern that was brought up at a training about a point in the Code of Ethics.  It was decided that no change was needed.
• NJDA 2003 Conference—Steve Jett  Steve told us that the NJDA Executive Board is looking at having the NJDA 2003 conference in Boise.  It will be necessary for the state to field a good strong host committee to help get the conference off the ground.  Steve will get more information from NJDA about what is needed, roles of the host committee, etc.
• Non-detention alternatives information for NJDA—Steve Jett  If there are any creative non-detention alternatives in the state, NJDA would like to have more information about them.  Please contact Steve with any info.
• NJDA Curriculum Training hours—Steve Jett  If there have been any in-house training in the detention centers using the NJDA curriculum, please get the number of hours of training and number of participants to Steve
• Chuck Kehoe, Pat Lambert Training—Steve Jett  Steve will look into more training dealing with incident reporting, emergency management issues.
• ICRMP Training—Steve Jett  Dave Sasser has pledged ICRMP’s help in formulating and delivering training to the administrators.  Possible training topics were discussed, including the HIPA Act, dealing with transfer of any medial records.  Steve will followup.
• 2001/2002 Block Grant allocations process—Mike Stallcup  Mike discussed the changes in the distribution of block grant and tobacco tax money.  The 1998 census figures were used in the past.  Can the 2000 census figures be used because they theoretically would be the most accurate figures for the state’s population.  Unfortunately, there will be several counties that will be adversely affected by the new census figures.  Other options were discussed, such as using a predetermined year as a baseline year, implement the 2000 census but have enough new dollars to offset any losses to adversely affected counties, etc. 
• 2% holdback  Director Reinke briefly talked about the holdbacks and the possibility of having an increase in the holdback amounts and percentages.  Director Reinke told us that DJC has been in meetings with the Governor and they have agreed to leave the impact of the holdbacks out of the block grant monies.  The state will take the bigger hit, and not pass that hit on to the counties. 
• CISM Training—Brian Walker talked about the training, and how the CISM groups worked.  Steve is setting up a group in his facility.  Steve will get information about the upcoming training out to administrators. 
• Dues—Don Garner  Membership dues invoices will be sent out with the minutes.
• Debbie Stallcup related that the state paid for a number of people to go to Verbal Judo last week and the training was great. 

DJC topics                        Bill Lasley  Bill passed out a list of community IJOS trainers. 

 The new liaison in District II is Kevin Bernatz, in District III is Shelly McCoshum. 

 The grants monitoring position is open and Bill encouraged anyone with experience with grants and the process in Idaho to apply.

The chaplain position in St. Anthony is open.

 Bill passed out information dealing with regionalization. 

 Three Springs in Mountain Home opened up on Dec 3^rd.  Director Reinke suggested that we hold a meeting at their facility sometime and take a tour.

 Debbie Stallcup mentioned that she saw a proposal to bring tobacco and alcohol offenses into the JCA.  She will get that and distribute that to the association through Steve. 

 Joint meetings that used to be held on the second day (after the regular IACJJA Meeting) are expensive.  It was suggested that we try to be more productive during the first day in order to eliminate the need for a second day of meetings.  Starting the meetings an hour earlier is possible because the plane schedule from up North has changed and arrives earlier. 

 It was motioned that the meetings start at 0900, which was seconded and passed.

 Meeting schedule

• Jan 9  Boise 0900 At the Owyhee Plaza

• Mar 20  McCall 0900 At the Best Western (This meeting was originally scheduled for the 6^th, but had to be rescheduled)

• May 8  Pocatello 0900

• July 24  Coeur d’Alene 0900

• Sep 22  Coeur d’Alene in conjunction with IJJA Time to be set

• Dec 4  Boise 0900

 Adjourned