March 23, 2004 C/C MinutesMeridian City Pre-Cou~il Meeting
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De Weerd: I would like if we could come in and ask (inaudible) to join us
(inaudible).
Nary: Okay.
ROLL CALL: Bird, aye; Rountree, aye; Wardle, aye; Nary, aye.
Item 3. Fatecutive Session per Idaho State Code 67-2345(1)(b):
Nary: We can reconvene our Pre-Council meeting. I would accept a motion to
leave Executive Session.
Rountree: So moved.
Bird: Second.
Nary: Moved and seconded to leave Executive Session. All those in favor, say
aye. No final decisions were made.
ALL AYES. MOTION CARRIED.
Item 4. Review of Computer Surolus Resolution:
Nary: Council, all we need to do is if it looks okay go ahead and let it go on the
Agenda next week. If there is any objection -
Bird: I have no objection.
Rountree: No objection.
Nary: So asked. (inaudible name given} if you could communicate that to Mr.
Nichols to go ahead and put that on in two weeks on our regular agenda.
Item 5. Request to provide expanded roll off services to the City of
Meridian by Steve Sedlecek with SSC:
Nary: Expanded roll off services, Item No. 5 is only necessary for -again, any
discussion, if any, Mr. Sedlecek was not able to be here this evening. It would
need to be for a public hearing anyway. Unless Council has objection we can go
ahead and have that scheduled within three or four weeks. Proper noticing has
to be out.
Bird: Let's go for it.
Rountree: Let's get them done.
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Nary: All right. So, no objection we will go ahead and move forward with that.
Item 6. Discussion on Juvenile Accountability program through the
Prosecution Contract with Boise City:
Nary: The Juvenile Accountability program, they have been requested from the
City of Boise for the Juvenile Accountability program -it's part of the prosecution
contract. In this last year there was some amount that was contributed by the
City. We didn't know the specific dollar amount, but they are reapplying for this
grant and at least the information I had and I asked the Chief to look at that as
well that the level of service for the City of Meridian is pretty low and it was a
passed through grant, but also there was some match on the City's part. In the
last fiscal year 36 juveniles received service through this program and I thought
the amount that was contributed was $1,500. I don't know if it was more or less
than that. That was the figure that I recalled and the juvenile coordinator couldn't
recall the amount. For 36 kids in this program that seems not a real good value
than what we are getting. Most of these programs -most of the juvenile
accountability is being handled already by the Police Department. So, what was
being asked by the ~ordinator for this program was whether or not we wish to
participate in the grant again or not. Does Council have a preference as to what
we would communicate back to them? If we are going to continue to do it, we
are going to have to partially fund it and it appears that, I guess, as bottom line
it's not really providing a tremendous amount of service to our youth. Most of our
youth are getting these issues of juvenile crimes that can be dealt with already by
the Police Department pretty extensively through the SRO's and the Police.
Honestly, a lot of juvenile crime that gets wmmitted by Meridian residents gets
committed in Boise and gets dealt with by the program that's already in Boise.
Rountree: Mr. President.
Nary: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Could we get a word from Chief Musser on that?
Nary: Certainly. Chief, I didn't mean to speak for you. I was trying to hurry a
little bit because we were running late.
Musser: Mr. President, members of the Council in regards to this we had done
some discussion. I made some contact as well with the Juvenile Accountability
folks and verified the numbers that they had provided at an earlier time. Matter
of fact it was in the first quarterly report, which is dated from October to
December of 2003 that Roger Cockerille in the City Attorney's office over in
Boise had presented to the Council that was seated during that time. This would
have been prior to the January council that is currently in. Councilman Nary is
absolutely right when he says we only had 36 total participants on that during