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BK:00025 PG <br />funded. <br />Commissioner Womack recommended the night vision equipment requested in the budget be <br />Commissioner Knecht joined the meeting at 10:20 a.m. <br />The Board discussed the Animal Control budget which showed a request for two (2) new <br />vehicles which had not been recommended by the County Manager. The Board made no <br />recommendations for changes to the Animal Control budget. <br />Chief Deputy Randall Butler discussed the Internal Affairs Officer position requested in the <br />budget but not recommended by the County Manager. Mr. Butler stated this position would assist him <br />and David Prevatte in keeping up with all the complaints received from the public on internal issues. <br />Mr. Butler stated since the department has taken over Animal Control and the School Resource <br />Officers (SRO) he is stretched to the limit and would like the Commissioners to consider funding this <br />position. <br />Sheriff Carter stated he would like to see the Internal Affairs Officer position funded and also <br />asked the temporary salaries line item be increased. <br />Commissioner Reives left the meeting at this time. <br />At this time the Board took a 10 minute recess. Upon returning from recess with <br />Commissioners' Dalrymple, Knecht, Parks, Smith, and Womack in attendance, the meeting resumed. <br />Social Services Director Brenda Potts discussed her FY 2013 -14 budget requests for Social <br />Services and Youth Services. Ms. Potts discussed recommendations from the Evergreen Report which <br />required each unit to develop and implement a method for soliciting customer feedback at least once <br />during the year. They used their complaint calls as a tool for collecting information during the past year. <br />The main issue was long wait times to be signed in which was hard on the elderly and disabled. They <br />have now put into effect a "take a number system" where the individual can sit down in the waiting room <br />until their number is called to be registered. The second issue involved clients coming to the 4th floor <br />for appointments and having to come through the reception desk on the first floor to be signed in which <br />sometimes made them late for their appointment. Some would need to only pick up a voucher or check <br />and would not need to be seen but had to sign for the receipt of the item. Due to this issue, DSS is <br />moving the switchboard to the 4 floor lobby and the switchboard operator will man the reception log for <br />that floor. The third issue involved a need to move the traffic through registration faster for those that <br />only need to be here for a short while. To solve this issue, DSS will open a third window (where the <br />switchboard was moved from) to support the new eligibility structure. When a client comes to report a <br />change that can be handled in a few minutes, they will access this window. <br />Ms. Potts stated a new contract for attorney services for Child Support, Adult Services, Fraud, <br />etc. had been signed with the same attorney that was doing Child Welfare. <br />Ms. Potts addressed the need to move the operation of specific non - social services functions <br />out of the Lee County Department of Social Services, including the Hillcrest Shelter and Youth Services <br />program. It was suggest that a non - profit take over the Hillcrest and Youth Services programs but she <br />has not had much success as the non - profits are facing the same thing as us, the level of child they <br />would be serving. The census would not be there to support the project. Ms. Potts stated the County, <br />at this time, had a golden opportunity to enter into an agreement with Ms. Laurie Conaty from the <br />Center for Behavioral Healthcare to keep the shelter service in Lee County along with some services to <br />support the shelter that we could never afford and did not have access to that level in- house, and did <br />2 <br />