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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-08-1997 Meeting I I I PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE COMMITTEE ROOM - September 8, 1997 3:30 P.M. PRESENT: Hon. Larry Sconyers, Mayor, H. Brigham, Chairman; Kuhlke, Zetterberg, members; Beard, J. Brigham, Commissioners; R. Oliver, Administrator; J. Wall, Attorney; G. Glennway, Finance Department; R. Leverette, RCCI; P. Tucker, EMA Director; Mary Ann Gibbs, Chief Toole, Sheriff's Department; Doug Shaw, Precision Planning; Bill Dean, Lena Bonner, Clerk of Commission and Belinda Brown of the Clerk's Office. ABSENT: Willie Mays, Commissioner ALSO PRESENT: Metro Spirit. Sylvia Cooper, Augusta Chronicle; Stacy Eidson, Clerk: We have one addendum item: Approve Georgia Emergency Management Agency Area Three Mutual Aid Agreement. Mr. Kuhlke: So move. Mr. Zetterberg: Second. Motion carried unanimously. A request from Bill Dean of Juvenile Court to approve the purchase of a services sub-contract between Richmond County and James Player and Charles Bartlett, subject to full reimbursement by the State, to provide supervision of community work groups. Also Leon Murray and Norma Miller to provide counseling and tutoring services. Mr. Kuhlke: Move approval, subj ect to 100% reimbursement from the State. Mr. Zetterberg: Second. Motion carried unanimously. A request from the Sheriff's Department for approval to accept the second lowest bid price from Robinson Textile for Richmond County Jail Inmate Uniforms in the amount of $27,594. Ms. Gibbs: We are asking that you take the second lowest bid, there isa difference of $1107.00. The low bid Acme is a store front operation. After checking around they have not been able to deliver three or four of their last contracts and we are desperate for uniforms. We have been trying since April 14 of this year to geOt uniforms. Going through the bid process and then getting samples in from the various vendors and then we wash them and the results are not good. So we opted to go with the company that we had been doing business with and gives us quality material and can deliver within 15 days. With Phinizy Road opening we are desperate. Mr. Zetterberg: So move. ~ Mr. Kuhlke: Second. I Motion carried unanimously. A request from the Sheriff's Department to Correctional Medical Services of intent not to to solicit bids for medical care for inmates. approve notice to renew contract and Mr. Kuhlke: So move. Mr. Zetterberg: Second. Ms. Gibbs: We were just a little concerned about it when we were going through and getting estimates for on the budget for next year. We realized that Phinizy Road will be opening and we had asked CMS to give us a price and also the contract rolls over automatically January 1, if they are not notified by October 1, that we want to go out for a bid and it increased by $1.5 million, we had some concerns and felt like we needed to go back out for bids. The population in the contract did not change but the personnel did change. They've had the contract for two and a half years. Chief Toole: What happened was that we are going to take up the personnel from the stockade and transfer them to Phinizy Road but with the majority of the population moving to Phinizy Road in the very beginning, to meet medical standards and any company that comes in is going to have to do the same thing. To meet standards you have to have an RN, two LPN's, twenty four hour service, along with a physician's assistant and all the other support services that goes with a medical contract. So for us to stay within standards, regardless of who comes in here, you will see the same amount of personnel involved in it. I After further discussion; Motion carried unanimously. :i A request from the Sheriff's Department to approve professional services supplement with precision Planning, Inc., for architecture and electrical engineering for the replacement of locks and lock control system for the existing Law Enforcement Center, at a cost not to exceed $66,000. Mr. Zetterberg:. So move. . ....:... Mr. Kuhkle: Second. There was a figure of about $600 and some odd thousand dollars, if I'm not mistaken, that may have been on Phinizy Road rather than 4th Street but did we have the locks and so forth, Doug in the original bid on 4th Street? Mr. Shaw: No sir. I Mr. Kuhlke: So we're talking about $1 million for the locks I I I and electrical work on 4th Street? Mr. Shaw: Yes, the original scope of the 4th Street facility was the addition of the medical areas and the first floor. This work is for the control room in the- tower area. Mr. Oliver: This was part of the emergency bid process that was approved a couple of months ago. After further discussion; Motion carried unanimously. A request from the Attorney to approve amendment to lease agreement between Augusta and the salvation Army to provide for fencing of property and for additional compensation to the Salvation Army. Mr. Wall: The city of Augusta entered into a lease agreement with the Salvation Army of where the city leased some property up on Greene Street immediately adjacent to the Salvation Army building, between the building and the railroad. It was a year to year lease automatically renewable. The Day Labor Camp that you may recall pick-up on Greene Street was relocated further up Greene Street. They have expressed concern about the continuation of that day labor shelter and we have met with them, Mr. Oliver, Mr. Kuhlke and I met with them. Essentially what we want to do is enclose the shelter with some metal fencing material not just chain link and in exchange for that they are asking a for a waiver of the tipping fee which is $800 a month, but in conversations that Mr. Oliver has had with David Smith, it's more like $500. They are also asking for a 120 day termination provision so that in the event that this does not cure the problem, they want to be able to terminate the lease at any point. The Sheriff's Department is agreeable to locking and unlocking the gate into the shelter facility. Another thing that they are asking for, under the terms of the lease agreement we have the obligation to go in purposely 2 time a week and clean up the area, we apparently have not been doing a good job of that and they are asking for some more effort in trying to keep the area clean. And I recommend approval of the lease agreement. Mr. Kuhlke: I think that what we face in this community is a the long term problem with the homeless. In going up there this morning, they had cleaned that area up on Friday and it's just horrible. There are a number of people that stay in the shelter during the day that go to the Salvation Army at night, spend the night, eat there, a couple of meals. It's a problem that if it works that the Salvation Army is doing a service for us right now. Long term, we probably will have to pay attention to this. And the reason I was asking about the stockade was that may not be suitable for a jail anymore, but the possibility if we even want to consider a day-care area for people that don't have a place to go, that may be a temporary location, hopefully this will workout and they will open the shelter at 6:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. So, if it doesn't work with the Salvation Army, it's coming back to us somewhere. Mr. Oliver: And in my opinion, it's going to move people I outside the shelter and under the bridge. Mr. Kuhlke: I move that we approve this contract. Mr. Zetterberg: Second. Mr. Kuhlke: I might say that the contract is slightly different from that in the agenda book. The fencing is different and a few other little changes. Mr. Beard: What about the $800 a month for the loss revenue, where is that coming from? Mr. Oliver: It's coming out of the General Fund. !:. Mr. Kuhlke: The way I look at it that this is the kind of problem that you wish would go away, but it's going to get worse. They indicated to us this morning that we are housing probably in the agencies that house people about 6500 and you normally add about 25% of that of people that are sleeping on the street and that would bring us up to about 9000 people and these are last years figures. So as we grow, if we can make this thing work with the Salvation Army, we'll be helping ourselves. We asked them to maybe come to us with a suggestion on how working through the social agencies and the Salvation Army to come to us with some ideas, because this is going to come back to us. I ,. '" Mr. Oliver: One of their suggestions was ultimately the day facility with a person from the Department of Labor staffed there. They said that had worked successfully in some other places. ::"! Motion carried unanimously. A request from Pam Tucker, EMA Director to approve Georgia Emergency Management Agency Area Three Mutual Aid Agreement. ,. Ms. Tucker: Georgia Emergency Management Agency has divided our state up into six sections and we are in area three. As I mentioned to you in some correspondence a few months ago, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is making some new requirements because of the number of disasters that are occurring across the country. One of those requirements is that local governments have mutual aide agreements with one another. What we wanted to do was have one that's regional in a sense that it includes all area three counties. We're the largest of all those counties and more than likely some of our smaller neighboring communities would need our assistance in a major disaster where they just don't have the resources that we have. This particular agreement has been reviewed by the attorney and the administrator. The reimbursement provisions are all in place as they have to be. If we send help somewhere else, we will be reimbursed accordingly for whatever personnel time or equipment that we use or for anything like that. Additionally, I'll be coming back in the near future with one I I between us and Chatham County because we need at least one mutual aide agreement with a county that is the size of us. We need to be able to call for aid from another county who has equal population and resources to come and help us if we need it. Mr. Kuhlke: I move approval. Mr. Zetterberg: Second. Motion carried unanimously. With no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned. Lena J. 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