COMMISSIONERS' COURT AGENDA REQUEST
PLEASE FURNISH ONE ORIGINAL AND NINE COPIES OF THIS REQUEST AND DOCUMENTS TO BE
REVIEWED BY THE COURT.
MADE BY: Fred Henn OFFICE: County Judge
MEETING DATE: May 14, 2001 TIME PREFERRED:
SUBJECT: (PLEASE BE SPECIFIC)
Consider and discuss presentation on expansion of Kerr County
Juvenile Detention Facility.
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May 2, 2001
TO: Commissioners
FROM: Fred Hen e~
SUBJECT: Expansion of Juvenile Detention Facility
The Kerr County Juvenile Boazd voted unanimously today to expand the Juvenile
Detention Facility by adding a 24 bed pre-adjudication wing. This expansion is dictated
by the demand for pre-adjudicated beds for juveniles from Kerr County and the other
counties served by the 198` and 216` Judicial Districts; since Bandera and Gillespie
counties were both in the top ten growth counties statewide, the current 12 pre-
adjudicated beds will not service the demand from our catchment azea for very long.
In order to accomplish this expansion, the Commissioners Court will be asked to create a
new public service corporation identical to the existing Kerr County Juvenile Detention
Corporation. Once that is accomplished, the Commissioners Court will not have to be
involved in the project. Title to the facility will be transferred from the existing
corporation to the new corporation and new financing will be put into place. The new
financing will not be an obligation of Kerr County and will be virtually identical to the
existing financing. Additionally, the current favorable interest rates will result in monthly
payments for the new debt, including the expansion, that aze slightly less than the current
monthly payments. Thus, the detention facility will remain self-supporting and the finest
public detention facility in the State.
I will schedule a presentation and action on this issue for our May 29`s meeting. The
Juvenile Boazd is under a very short timetable to accomplish this and we need to proceed
as quickly as possible.
If you have any questions, please contact either myself, Judge Ables, Judge Prohl or
Tommy Tomlinson.
Cc: Judge Ables
Judge Prohl
Tommy Tomlinson
Kevin Stanton
Tanna Brown