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HALL COUNTY BOARD OF CORRECTIONS MEETING MAY 12, 2009 The Hall County Board of Corrections met from general session and by published call. 10:00 a.m. Wagoner made the motion and Jeffries seconded to go into the Board of Corrections. Members present on roll call vote were Bud Jeffries, Pamela Lancaster, Daniel Purdy, and Gary Quandt. Bob Rye and Daniel Wagoner. Scott Arnold was absent for the vote. Also present was Corrections Director Fred Ruiz. OPEN MEETING LAW — Chairwoman Lancaster read the notice of the open meeting law. MINUTES OF MEETING — Quandt made a motion and Jeffries seconded to place on file the minutes of the January 6, 2009 meeting. Jeffries, Lancaster, Purdy, Quandt, Rye and Wagoner, all voted yes and none voted no. Arnold was absent for the vote. Motion carried. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION — Chairperson Lancaster called for public participation and no one responded. CORRECTIONS DIRECTORS REPORT -- Corrections Director Fred Ruiz stated that they received two bids for the inmate medial services from Correctional Healthcare Management and Advanced Correctional Healthcare. Both vendors are out of state and he stated that he sent copies of the RFP to all of the local doctors but did not receive any responses. Correctional Healthcare was the low bidder and proposed a staffing plan. They proposed setting up a pool of money to care of the pharmaceutical services and emergency runs and if the funds are not used they are refunded to the county. They have 4.4 employees and they hire locally and use a local pharmacy and are proposing to hire a local doctor for the weekly visits. Mr. Ruiz stated that it appears that it would save $4,900.00 over what they are spending now. Quandt expressed concern that the local hospital is not interested. Jeffries stated that the committee met with the hospital and they stated that they are not interested in doing any part of the service. Mr. Ruiz stated that the current contract expires in 30 day. The committee encourages using local providers and they tried but received no response. Arnold stated that the bottom line is the liability and the amount of work involved and if the local providers are not set up to offer that type of service. Mr. Ruiz reported that they will be dong the final walk through in the facility and they have discussed the issue with the concrete and repaired a leak on the roof. They were a coupe of issues on the landscaping regarding the grass and trees and an issue with the heating and cooling system there was some sediment in the lines so the system was drained and filtered so they are basically done. The correction steering committee had discussed the daily rate and they are proposing to increase the rate to $55.00 a day. They also discussed the janitorial services contract that will be going out for bid. Mr. Ruiz stated that when he took over as director there was not good reporting system on the revenue that is generated by the facility, but now they are working on improving this process. He stated that from July 2008 to May 8 they have received $836,892.64 in revenue. ■ d I,I