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HALL COUNTY BOARD OF CORRECTIONS MEETING OCTOBER 25, 2011 9:30 a.m. Quandt made a motion and Ziola seconded to go into a Board of Corrections meeting Present on roll call were Scott Arnold, Pamela Lancaster, Bob McFarland, Daniel Purdy, Gary Quandt, Steven Schuppan 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 Pamela Lancaster. NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING LAW — Chairman Lancaster read the notice of the open meeting law. MINUTES — Ziola made a motion and Purdy seconded to place on file the minutes of the September 13, 2011 meeting. Arnold, Lancaster, McFarland, Purdy, Quandt, Schuppan and Ziola all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried. PUBLIC. PARTICIPATION -- Chairman Lancaster called for public participation . and no one responded. CORRECTION'S DIRECTOR'SREPORT — Mr. Ruiz stated that the population is down to 210 to 220 the number of the ICE detainees are up. He noted that 44% of the inmates are on some type of drugs and about 18% are on psychotropic drugs. They did receive the new finger printing equipment and it has been installed. They charge $10.00 for the first print and $5.00 for each additional print. It was important to get the public out of the secure areas and that has been done. The new revenue was included on the revenue report. The State Department of Corrections visited the facility and it is nice to have the bigger facilities in Nebraska visit. They were interested in Hall County's technology. Quandt questioned the medical costs and Mr. Ruiz stated that they are currently at 70% of the budgeted medical costs. They recently had one inmate medical costs at $26,000.00 but after reviewing the bill Holly noticed that St. Francis did not bill it at the Medicaid rate so the hospital was contracted and will be refunding about $20,000.00 but that will just go in the general fund. When the state fair was here the people that work the midway may have records and there was an issue when one was incarcerated and there were subsequent medical bills but the county is stuck with the bill. Lancaster noted that they are checking the inmates to see if they may have veteran's benefits and if so they are used. Mr. Ruiz stated that the kiosks are installed and in the first 15 weeks they did about $30,000.00 worth of business the county receives 56% so this will be about a 30%