Agenda Package 6-17-13 Reg. Meeting

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►M t Commissioner Womack recommended the night vision equipment requested in the budget be funded. Commissioner Knecht joined the meeting at 10:20 a.m. The Board discussed the Animal Control budget which showed a request for two (2) new vehicles which had not been recommended by the County Manager. The Board made no recommendations for changes to the Animal Control budget. A& Chief Deputy Randall Butler discussed the Internal Affairs Officer p requested in the budget but not recommended by the County Manager. Mr. Butler stated thi os would assist him and David Prevatte in keeping up with all the complaints received from th public ternal issues. Mr. Butler stated since the department has taken over Animal Control a d the I Resource Officers (SRO) he is stretched to the limit and would like the Commissioners to consid ding this position. Sheriff Carter stated he would like to see the Intern ffairs A er position funded and also asked the temporary salaries line item be increased. Commissioner Reives left the meeting at this time. At this time the Board took a 10 minute recess. Upofreturning from recess with Commissioners' Dalrymple, Knecht, Parks, Sr W Womack in attendance, the meeting resumed. Social Services Director Brenda Potts ccus 2013 -14 budget requests for Social Services and Youth Services. Ms. Potts discuss I'll, r mm ations from the Evergreen Report which required each unit to develop and implement a od for oliciting customer feedback at least once during the year. They used their complaint calls as tool for collecting information during the past year. The main issue was long wait ' es to be signed in ° ch was hard on the elderly and disabled. They have now put into effect a " I mber system" ere the individual can sit down in the waiting room until their number is call to be istered. The second issue involved clients coming to the 4 th floor for appointments and to c hrough a reception desk on the first floor to be signed in which sometimes made them late ent. Some would need to only pick up a voucher or check and would not need to be se ut had to sign for the receipt of the item. Due to this issue, DSS is moving the switchboard to the r bby and the switchboard operator will man the reception log for that floor. T issue involve need to move the traffic through registration faster for those that only nee or a short hile. To solve this issue, DSS will open a third window (where the switch rd was m from) to support the new eligibility structure. When a client comes to report a cha at can be h led in a few minutes, they will access this window. tts stat a new contract for attorney services for Child Support, Adult Services, Fraud, etc. had be ne ith the same attorney that was doing Child Welfare. Ms. Pow addressed the need to move the operation of specific non - social services functions out of the Lee County Department of Social Services, including the Hillcrest Shelter and Youth Services program. It was suggest that a non - profit take over the Hillcrest and Youth Services programs but she has not had much success as the non - profits are facing the same thing as us, the level of child they would be serving. The census would not be there to support the project. Ms. Potts stated the County, at this time, had a golden opportunity to enter into an agreement with Ms. Laurie Conaty from the Center for Behavioral Healthcare to keep the shelter service in Lee County along with some services to support the shelter that we could never afford and did not have access to that level in- house, and did PA