Idaho Association of County Juvenile Justice Administrators Meeting Agenda

Date: August 11, 2004

Place: Kootenai County Building 501 N. Government Way Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

0900 hrs. Call To Order Seth Scott

Times below are approximate

0905 hrs. Introduction Membership

Present: Nadine McDonald, Sheley Beck, Melinda Hadzor, Debbie Stallcup, Doug Brown, Al Friesen, Ron Stults, Jim Martin, JT Taylor, Brian Dulin, Marcy Chadwell, Levi Wollenwauber, Tony Mastrobernardino, John Triplett, Chris Talkington, Justin Steele, Seth Scott, Don Garner, Steve Jett, Marianne Kelley. Director Reinke, Bill Lasley and Kevin Bernatz came at 1300 hrs to participate in the DJC topics discussion.

Guests: Dustin Hayes, Marissa Mavity from Bonner County.

0910 hrs. Review/approval of minutes President

Debbie Stallcup motioned and John Triplett seconded to accept the minutes from the Salmon minutes. Voting was unanimous.

0915 hrs. Treasurer’s Report Treasurer

$2885.52 in checking $3117.56 in the Pool (interest through end of June)

$2560 in dues has been paid 32 Counties paid.

0920 hrs. Regional Reports

• Bonner County Juvenile Probation. Debbie Stallcup explained that as the County was building their building, kids were involved and the tradesman taught and used juveniles while they were doing work. WILD and community service hours were also used. Now, the contractors are giving the county good deals and donating time if they can use the kids. Also, kids are being placed in employment as a result of that program. A spinoff was developed doing a woodshop. Under Ron Stults direction, the kids have set up a business in which they build things specialinzing in planters and picnic tables. They started with 16x16 boxes, and branched out to other sizes, and incuded hanging boxes, tables, etc. Local nurseries have carried the boxes, and they have sold over 100 boxes. A trust fund has been established for the proceeds. The program will eventually support itself, and will not need to use grant funds. The prices are rock bottom and the quality is very very good. These products are very impressive. They have not taken orders over the phone in the past, but if you call 208 263 1602, they say that they can figure out how to ship, how much it will cost, etc. Call and ask for Marissa Mavity, Dustin Hayes, Barry Thomas or Marcus Burt. They also have a garden in back of the probation department. The vegetables are sold and benefit the kids. The plants sell for $1.00.

0940 hrs. Committee Reports Committee Reps

Board of Juvenile Corrections President

Steve reported that the Board visited Canyon County and had toured the detention center and the probation department. Next meeting is on August 20.

ICCMH

Doug reported that the Ninth District Circuit has made a statement concerning the case. Paul Carroll sent a letter with some of the possible options that Judge Winmill has on the case. There is a hearing scheduled for later this month. The option of appointing a special master is being considered. Someone brought up the fact that Matt’s letter addressed some good points, but in some areas it is being underplayed and some areas have said that all the concerns in Matt’s letter have been taken care of.

Adult Mental Health Coalition

Steve Jett reported that he attended this meeting earlier this month and what the coalition was trying to do. One issue that Director Beauclair is trying to address is possibly reducing prison needs by providing mental health services in the community.

Other Committees

1030 hrs. Break

1045 hrs. IAC/Commissioner’s update IAC rep

No IAC representation

1100 hrs. JJ Training Council/P.O.S.T. Update IACJJA Reps and IAC Reps

• Academy dates, including one on Memorial Day. We have to be scheduled into the POST academy when there is space, regardless of Holidays. Since detention is close to having all of the previously hired employees through the academy, there may not be a need to have two academies per year. After all previously hired employees are through, and there is some room, do we want to look at a higher level of certification, etc. Management?
• Changing CDROM to split out probation and detention. Based on the feedback from students and administrators, the Legal and Liability CD will be split into Det and Prob issues. This should be available for these upcoming academies. The CD automatically sends results and time spent on the course to The Backup Corporation.
• New CD on Overview of JJ and JJDPA Core Requirements.
• New curriculum (including the Basic Health Care and Medication management). Meetings were held with Instructors and since the CD’s have opened up some time, other topics have been explored, as well as some classes have been extended slightly. Class starting time will be 0730, but with breaks, will not create overtime issue. Basic Health Care curriculum passed out. Marti Monk, an RN who works at POST, will be instructing the 6 hour course, which has a $15 fee for certification. One or two facilities do not want to pay the fee, possibly because they have nursing staff available or the facility has some type of training available already. ICRMP is asking for the course to be available for adult jails. Doug suggested that this training may be something that the IACJJA could help facilitate throughout the state.
• Probation Standards not going to this Legislative Session,
• Reserve Officer Rule Draft. Marcy reported that she and Steve submitted the rules for the Reserve Juvenile Detention Officer Rules.
• Doug brought up at the last Juvenile Training Council the fact that there are no representatives on the POST Council from County Juvenile Justice. This is on the agenda for the next Juvenile Training Council. It was suggested that the IACJJA draft a letter to the Juvenile Training Council requesting such. It was motioned by Doug and seconded by Nadine that a letter be sent to the JTC. Voting was unanimous.
• Al recognized that Marcy is doing a great job and has put a lot of time into improving the academy, curriculum, etc.

1130 hrs. General Administrator Discussion Topics

• Consular Notification. Steve talked about the international treaty that requires in some cases that a foreign national’s consulate be informed when a foreign national is incarcerated. More information will be sent out at a later date.
• Agent’s warrants/Discretionary time (Tabled until Sept)
• Courtesy Supervision Melinda Hadzor asked about any feedback that was received concerning the Courtesy Supervision document. Doug Brown moved that we adopt the Courtesy Supervision document as a policy for the counties. Chris Talkington seconded, and the voting passed unanimously.
• Transfer of Disposition/costs. Brian Dulin has a situation where the judge ordered sharing costs between two counties. Usually, however, the receiving county has responsibility for costs.
• How shift briefings are held in various facilities. Don asked about this because he has had an issue with employees requesting reimbursement for coming in early/staying late for shift briefings.
• Brian’s survey on Mental Health We talked about the good stats that Brian’s survey came up with. We thought that a way to keep better stats in the future would be to keep track of those juveniles that come in on psychotropic meds, which would indicate a prior diagnosis. It was decided that the detention centers and probation agencies take a snapshot for the day of September 15^th to give us an idea of all the kids on their caseloads that are actually on psychotropic medication.
• Elections for VP Probation, President, Treasurer. Nominations need to be sent to Steve as soon as possible, and he will prepare ballots for distribution in early September. No nominations were received at the meeting, except that Sheley Beck was nominated for the “Lunch Frau” position because of the great meal that she lined up for us. Thank you.
• 0915 Scheduling of meeting for IJJA Conference (Tuesday Morning until 1330 – Riverside Boardroom open.) Doug Brown motioned and John Triplett seconded that we have our administrator’s meeting on Tuesday morning starting at 0800. Voting was unanimous. Debbie is going to call Ian Curley to see if he can make it. John T talked to Bill Lasley to see if he can arrange to have a legislative update from DJC. This meeting will be on September 21, 2004 at 0800 at the Riverside Boardroom at the Doubletree Riverside.
• Doug moved that we eliminate the $5 cost for lunch and John T seconded. Passed unanimously.
• Steve moves that the checking account be formally closed now that IAC has taken over the money. Doug seconded, passed unanimously.
• Debbie Stallcup motioned that we consider a bylaw change to combine the Secretary and the treasurer position. Nadine seconded, and passed unanimously. This will be put on the agenda for the September 21 meeting.
• VP’s set up training, and since the budget is doing well, we need to make sure that we ramp this up. Seth talked about some of the training that may be desired and asked the members for suggestions.
• Brian talked about the 7.6 million dollars for substance abuse treatment.

1200 hrs. Working Lunch

1230 hrs. Call To Order President

1230 hrs. General Administrator Topics (continued if necessary)

1300 hrs. DHW Update DHW Rep

• (May be combined with ICCMH )

1330 hrs. DJC topics DJC Rep

• Updated information on the Department. No legislation is planned. There was a move to expand the Custody Review Board, but will not be pursued at this time.
• Budget concerns continue to be a worry. Next year’s JAIBG funding will be cut some more.
• Status of investigations at JCC-SA. Director Reinke addressed the situation in St A’s. Wayne Potter has been charged with sexual misconduct with victims in the community. Other charges are possible. He has been at the cottage for 8 years. Draft flowchart for handling calls concerning the investigation was handed out. If there is feedback on this flowchart or any other questions, please contact Director Reinke at his office 3345100 or cell at 9896700.
• RFP expected by July 2005 for female specific programming.
• Bill Lasley. Opening for Liaison for Northern Counties, Apply now.
• A series of meetings will be held around the state in the coming year to analyze the first 9-10 years of the DJC. Results will be presented to the Legislators in the 06 year. Steve motioned that two people from this association be involved in that. Seth seconded and passed unanimously.

1400hrs. Adjournment