Item O16
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
EMERGENCY ADD ON
Meeting Date: October 16,2002
Division:
District 1
Bulk Item: Yes
No
Department: Commissioner Dixie M. Spehar
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Approval and support from the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners to request State
Representative Ken Sorensen to readdress funding for the detention staff for the Juvenile Detention
Center of Monroe County as a Special Member Project.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
A Juvenile Detention Center is ready and available to house juveniles. The Center will alleviate the
crowding of the Miami-Dade Facility, allow the children to remain close to family and counsel and
remove the endangerment to them and the County staff transporting them to and from Miami. Monroe
County residents invested their hard earned tax dollars in a Center they believed in and depended on
for their children and it is not open because there is no finding for staff.
PREVIOUS REVELANT BOCC ACTION:
The Monroe County Board of County Commissioners passed Resolution 183-2002 on April 17th 2002,
beseeching the Department of Juvenile Justice and the State Legislature to fund the staff for the new
Juvenile Detention Center for Monroe County.
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes
No
COST TO COUNTY:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No
AMOUNT PER MONTH
Year
APPROVED BY: County Arty _ OMB/Purchasing _ Risk Management_
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
(Commissioner Dixie M. Spehar)
DOCUMENTATION:
Included
To Follow
Not Required_
DISPOSITION:
AGENDA ITEM #~
Revised 2/27/01