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would not be demolished, it is considered an expansion with approxi- mately 40% reconstruction. The other options we are looking at would be to abandon this facility completely and are there other needs in the county/communiry for youth related programs which could be used as youth campus? in terms of the front of the building the public reception area, getting to the courtrooms and getting to the probation offices. There are a lot of difficulties with the current facility trying to design around that with security and still getting the public where they need to be in a timely manner. So we are looking at both these options. There has been a lot of interest with looking into a joint venture with another county, specially Polk County. The problem with this is trying to foresee the future, so the facility can be flexible enough for changing programs. This facility will look more like a jail with better security. There is no sallyport for dropping off kids, currently police pull into a parking lot and there is very little space between the outside cage door and the inside cage door. This is not considered security in today terms, so there will be surveillance cameras and other security. The pod system allows for group work, education, and many other things and at the sametime provides a secure setting while addressing those issues. Also, in the design there is a medical room which is adjacent to the staff area with a window in it and there is a soundproof timeout room located in each pod. The general concept will be the communal living with the kids doing their own dishes, laundry, and housekeeping. There is an initiative out that says, 15, 16 and 17 year olds who are charged with one of the 16 most serious felonies will be tried as adults. The issues of where they get housed is up in the air. Currently, they are required to be housed in Juvenile Detention. Unless the legislature changes that requirement. You have to be at least 16 to go to jail. A remand now with a 16 or 17 year old could go to jail, but that after remand. The current status does not provide for pre-trail holding in an adult facility. If this initiative passes, both the number of cases we see, who gets to hold them and what happens after they are sentenced will be issues that need to be addressed and we won't know the answer until after the legislator goes home. There are approximately 2000 new cases coming in the system per year. Out of that number, approximately 150 youths per year are tried as adults. The suggestion has been made to look at building on the north side of the Corrections Faciliry. The major advantage of this would be to share food service primarily and inmate laundry is another possibility. The difference between the cost of food service is substan- tial. If this was to be considered, it would require the counry to purchase additional land from the state. The issues that are connected with that are: how do you maintain site and sound separation between juveniles and adults, which is required by status and still get the food from Correc- tions to the Juvenile facility? Is the kitchen for the Jail adequate if there is additional expansion of the jail, plus Juvenile? This would not be our first preference for several reasons. One would be the familiarity of their