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HALL COUNTY BOARD OF CORRECTOINS MEETING MARCH 1, 2011 ROLL CALL VOTE — 11:00 a.m. Quandt made a motion and Ziola seconded to go into a Board of Corrections meeting. Present on roll call were Scott Amold, Bud Jeffries, Pamela Lancaster, Daniel Purdy, Steve Schuppan, Gary Quandt and David Ziola. Also present was Fred Ruiz Corrections Director, County Attorney Jack Zitterkopf and Board Assistant Stacey Ruzicka. • CALL TO ORDER - The meeting was called to order by Chairman Bud Jeffries. CORRETIONS DIRECTOR'S REPORT -- Corrections Director Fred Ruiz was present and distributed information to the board members. The Securis Phone Contract in the inmate housing units is due in July and he discussed this with Jerry Janulewicz regarding going out for bids but they already have their equipment in place and they may not do any better than this contract. They use prepaid phone cards for the inmates. They also provide an automated information system so 58% the calls are being taken care of by the automated system. A lot of calls relate to inmate release information and if would have been difficult to handle 27,000 phone requests. They have not found any other provider that would work with law enforcement and if they were to change systems they may not retain the archive information. The County also receives a 56% commission on the gross revenue. The have also been offered a $50,000.00 technology grant the first $30,000.00 would be used to purchase fingerprinting equipment that they would use to provide public fingerprints, now the public may have to wait hours before the prints can be taken because the booking area has to be free of inmates before any one else can come in. New equipment would be installed in the booking area and there would be a portable unit that could be used for the public prints. They would charge $10.00 for a public fingerprint. He has a proposed contract and will discuss this with the corrections steering committee. Ziola noted that the unit cost is $31,000.00 and there are maintenance fees of $2,000.00 The prints will be submitted by phone. Mr. Ruiz stated that he would also like to address the Internet based video visitation. This is fairly new technology. December 28 the company came out and then came back and offered to install the equipment. He would like to look at an RFP and go out for bids. This system would offer internet visitation, if a family has internet access they would be able to do the internet visitation. It would generate some revenue and inmates are better behaved due to increased visitation and would be less of a problem for the visitors. Swanson's is trying to schedule the installation of the kiosks but they do not have a schedule set when the wiring will be installed. He provided information on the ICE revenue and note that through January they have received $1,492,085.09 in revenue and he would like to start paying back the inheritance fund. They are averaging 85 to 90 ICE inmates daily. 1