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HALL COUNTY BOARD OF CORRECTIONS MEETING NOVEMBER 10, 2009 The Hall County Board of Corrections met from general session and by published call. 10:00 a.m. Quandt made the motion and Rye seconded to go into the Board of Corrections. Members present on roll call vote were Scott Arnold, Bud Jeffries, Pamela Lancaster, Daniel Purdy, and Gary Quandt. Bob Rye and Daniel Wagoner. 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 September 15, 2009 meeting. Arnold, Jeffries, Lancaster, Purdy, Quandt and Wagoner, all voted yes and none voted no. Rye was absent for the vote. Motion carried. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION — Chairperson Lancaster called for public participation and no one responded. CORRECTIONS DIRECTORS REPORT — Mr. Ruiz stated that last week was difficult with the funeral for John Fosket. The staff will experience some residual affects and the mental health provider has offered her services for the staff. The entire staff has been very supportive and the department was well represented at the services. Mr. Ruiz noted the following inmate population numbers: YEAR TOTAL INMATES 2007 4201 2008 4051 2009 4380 He stated that they will be at 6000 bookings from January to December. The daily population is at 218 and the ICE numbers from July to October is at 72. These numbers go up and down and sometimes they may do 85 bookings in a day. With those numbers they are generating revenue. From July to November they generated $770,248.00 and there were also the SCAT funds in the amount of $5,682.00. They are doing well and the hope to generate more revenue with the ICE contract. This week jail standards will be doing the review and tomorrow Advanced Correctional Health Care will be doing some training on suicide prevention. He also went to North Platte they have just broken ground on their new facility. Quandt questioned what was used to do the background checks and Mr. Ruiz stated that they use NCIS and if anything else is needed they would have to use Interpol.