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~ I: f ~' ~l ~~ ~ r.- ' ~ ~~ . . _. ~. .~~ s.. . ' ~ : ~, .. ~1r~. ., , ~` .'. as adults. If they are required to be held in juvenile pending that, then our length of stay goes from 2 months to 8 or 9 months. The other :~.!:. ~,~lt,, ~:,,~~.iSsue now is-due to the extent that to which the other counties that are partners with us now continue to be partners. Yamhill County has a measure on the ballot in September to build a detention wing on their jail and they would then be pulling out of their faciliry. Polk County wants to continue Linn and Benton certainly for the short term, eventually they may build their own facilities. Depending on which of those stay will effect it as well. The 36 capacity is always full and the information from all the counties is that they would be locking up more kids if the space was available. The pod concept is sixteen kids to a pod with two staff. This is similar to Multnomah County and King County, of Washington, the two new facilities Juvenile's sub committee visited. The design we are looking at would have six pods, 96 beds with the potential of two addi- tional pods for a total of 8 pods. Kids that continue to get into trouble wili go through the system and will end up at MacLaren (State owned), which is a long term facility. Is there any reason why the County hasn't thought about building their own long term facility and what are the perimeters to that? The longest you can sentence a juvenile to detention is 30 days. If you get a special certification you can run a 30 day pro- gram currently. The longer term has always been a State responsibility and it is expensive. This is logically not something we would want to do. There is no possibiliry that the Counry would get into that realm. It was mentioned the possibility of this building being used as dog kennels and this would provide the kids with an opportunity to work at the kennel. Someone from Dog Possibility would have to look at the building and determine if it is suitable for kennels. The other issues for us in addition to detention are a more permanent home for the Educational Programs. They have been in shared space for about 12 years plus a couple of trailers from Salem/Keizer school district that are located on site. We are also, talking with 24J about potential links with their structured learning center. They have just this last year started an alternative school, which actually came about from students bringing guns to school and they would expel them. But, they are still required to provide them with an education. Some of these kids are actually on our probation case load, so we are talking with them about a joint project for some of those kid. Currentiy there is one courtroom which is set up like a courtroom and one conference room which is much less formal then a regular court- room. We would be projecting at least two courtrooms in the new faciliry. We run a full docket now with one judge so it won't be long before an additional courtroom will be needed. The design is such that the courtroom would be adjacent to the intake portion of detention, so in custody youth come directly into the courtroom. This has been a problem in years past and we have addressed it with handcuff, a pas- sage through a courtyard and through public areas; which is less desir- able. Therefore, we will be designing it into our new facility. This facility