i.~3 COMMISSIONERS' COURT AGENDA REOUEST MADE B MEETING DATE: October 11, 2005 TIME PREFERRED: 2:00 ~ o i I vs~. z3 SUBJECT: Reports from the following Departments: Animal Control, Extension Office, Environmental Health and Juvenile Detention Facility. EXECUTIVE SESSION REQUESTED: (PLEASE STATE REASON) NAME OF PERSON ADDRESSING THE COURT: County Judge ESTIMATED LENGTH OF PRESENTATION: IF PERSONNEL MATTER -NAME OF EMPLOYEE: Time for submitting this request for Court to assure that the matter is posted in accordance with Title 5, Chapter 551 and 552, Government Code, is as follows: Meeting scheduled for Mondays: THIS REQUEST RECEIVED BY: THIS REQUEST RECEIVED ON: 5:00 P.M. previous Tuesday. All Agenda Requests will be screened by the County Judge's Office to determine if adequate information has been prepared for the Court's formal consideration and action at time of Court Meetings. Your cooperation will be appreciated and contribute towards you request being addressed at the earliest opportunity. See Agenda Request Rules Adopted by Commissioners' Court. .C r r 300 250 200 15C 10t 5~ ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OSSF ACTIVITY FY04-FY05 ^ FY04 ^ FY05 ^ PROJECTED FY06 PERMITS AUIIIUK~[Aiwn~ r•. • `.•••-•..-•-- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SOLID WASTE ACTIVITY JAN 1 THRU SEP 30 2005 TOTAL CASES RECEIVED 166 CASES INVESTIGATED 166 100% CASES CLOSED 114 68% COURT CASES 13 8% CASES PENDING 39 24% Cases Pending, 24°~ ~~~ Court Cases, 8% I Cases Cbsed, 68% II ~i III I~Z ~ ~I 10311 Kerr County Juvenile Facility Report for September 2005 • Average Population-35 o Post-Adjudication-24 (4 Kerr County) o Pre-Adjudication-11 • Expenditures--$169,189.68 o Increase of $19,788 from August • Revenue-$100,762.63 o Increase of $27,647.47 from August • Intakes-53 o Wilson County-2 o Bexar County-1 o Medina County-1 o Nueces County-26 o TYC-23 Discharges-6 o Bexar County-3 o El Paso-1 o Jim Wells-1 o Guadalupo-1 Pending Intakes---4 o Ward County-1 o Hood County-1 o Guadalupe-2 The 26 juveniles from Nueces County was a result of Hurricane Rita evacuation. These residents generated two days of revenue at $83/day. ,~ ~/,3/(~ The 23 juveniles from Texas Youth Commission arrived at noon on Friday September 30, 2005. TYC was billed for this one day in the month of September. An additional $2185 can be added to the revenue figures stated above in this report. The per diem rate for the TYC residents is $95/day. An expedient effort is being made to hire temporary employees to fill positions for the Annex building for the TYC residents. Several applications and interviews have been conducted. Training is occurring around the clock. Unfortunately, three staff were terminated causing the facility to replace those full-time positions with newly trained employees from temporary pool. Three steps forward, two steps back. Texas Youth Commission representatives from the Quality Assurance Department are coming one or two days per week for the next several weeks. They will be conducting training sessions on specific policies regarding suicide prevention, grievance procedures, and phase advancement unique to the TYC system. They will also be holding phase hearings with the TYC residents. KCJF staff will be a major part of these phase advancement hearings. TYC has been supportive of the programs and rules KCJF use on a regular basis with the post and pre residents. Incident reports, rules & consequences, dress code, dorm cleanliness, and movement from dorm to other annex areas fall in line with normal TYC procedures. Facility staff has been getting feedback from counties regarding the contract addendum. There has been only one county thus far that was slightly negative regarding the clothing issue. This county was assured that if the county or parent could not afford to buy cloths for the resident, the resident could continue wearing facility issued clothing. Clothing and hygiene donations are gradually being made from citizens of Kerrville and those residents in need of clothing and/or hygiene items would receive the donated items. Thus far, there have been no negative comments regarding the increased per diem rate for qualifying sex offender residents. $3 /lam z~l~~b ~~3 Bandera 93005 -035 $ 2,075.00 Bexaz 93005 LT-002 $ 14,608.00 Bumet 93005 -004 $ 1,245.00 Calhoun 93005 LT-075 $ 2,490.00 El Paso 93005 LT-010 $ 498.00 Gillespie 93005 -011 $ 249.00 Guadalupe 93005 LT-100 $ 5,063.00 Hood 93005 -078 $ 332.00 Jim Wells 93005 LT-201 $ 1,328.00 Jones 93005 LT-110 $ 2,490.00 KISD 93005 $ 375.63 Kerr 93005 LT-018 $ 9,960.00 (Kerr 93005 -018 $ 15,853.00 Kendall 93005 -017 $ 11,992.00 'Kimble 93005 LT-020 $ 2,490.00 Kimble 93005 -020 $ 1,245.00 Llano 93005 -021 $ 166.00 Mason 93005 -022 $ 166.00 Medina 93005 LT-055 $ 1,328.00 McCulloch 93005 -023 $ 2,656.00 Midland 93005 LT-026 $ 4,980.00 Montague 93005 LT-103 $ 2,490.00 Potter 93005 LT-106 $ 2,490.00 Uvalde 93005 -031 $ 996.00 Val Verde 93005 -108 $ 2,324.00 Warcl 93005 LT-062 $ 2,490.00 Williamson 93005 202 $ 2,490.00 Wilson 93005 LT-018 $ 2,490.00 Wilson 93005 -999 $ 913.00 Young 93005 LT-005 $ 2,490.00 ~u'~za~c~ oil ~ a 7, 6y7 y7 ~~"~ } ~, KERR COUNTY JUVENILE FACILITY VEHICLE MILEAGE LOG Becky Harris To: bwilliams@co.kerr.tx.us; kmitchell@co.keerr.tx.us Subject: terminated staff Commissioner Williams, Letting you know we terminated one full time staff for excessive absences and failure to report to work this weekend. She was informed to come and speak with Mr. Wilbanks yesterday to discuss her employment status. She failed to show up for the appointment. We terminated two full time male detention officers. One officer for falling asleep on the dorm while on duty. He was informed to speak with Mr. Wilbanks at 8:30 a.m. on Monday. He failed to keep the appointment. The other full time officer had a history of frequent tardies. He failed to report to work on Monday morning. He was terminated for job abandonment. The full-time cook position was filled on Wednesday. One full-time detention officer slot was filled effective Wednesday also. We are one-full time male officer short. Existing full-time staff or shift supervisors are filling the gap. We have one JDO who has been on light duty for two weeks and will remain on light duty for another two to three weeks due to a care accident. We have had another JDO on light duty for the past month due to surgery. A third JDO injured his back in a home accident and was unable to work at all during the month of August, and three weeks into September. One JDO took days off to move to another town. Another JDO has been diagnosed with a medical problems and is trying to get adjusted to ever-changing medication. This causes the JDO to call in sick frequently. It seems that the current medication may be working. Sickness and family issues are a constant reason for absences. We terminated one full-time control staff for excessive absences and depicting a pattern of calling in on the last day of her work week which gave her an extra day off. The part-time employee number was depleted for several weeks due to people finding full-time employment, returning to school in August, never answering the phone when we called them to work, or telling us they did not want to work when we called. Employment applicants were skeptical about working full-time or part-time in fear they would not have employment due to the budget issues surrounding the facility during August and September. As I have expressed to commissioner's court several times. The ability to hire people with a positive work ethic in the Kerrville area is very difficult. When people do not show up for work, the remaining full-time staff must fill in the gaps in order to maintain ratio. When our existing full-time staff are on their days off, if we have to call them to work, they either are not at home, have other plans, or simply will not work on their days off. The shift supervisors and one or two full-time staff are the most reliable and steady about filling in the gaps to maintain ratio. This constitutes the reasons for the larger payroll at the end of September. Overtime was paid to the staff that worked extra hours maintaining ratio. Also staff who were laid off were paid their accrued vacation time. Mr. Valverde had a large amount. It is a constant battle keeping staff either on full-time or part-time. I do not believe I have experienced such difficulty keeping a steady staff in place. Beginning this fiscal year, we intend to give time for time as much as possible thus reducing the amount of overtime paid to staff. This department is the most controversial department in the county. That is understood. Every attempt has been made and continues to be made to keep operational expenditures at a minimum. The facility is no longer operating under the same regime that put the facility in financial disarray. I just want to express to the court that the present administration did not create this mess nor did the present governing body. Thank you for letting me vent. I truly appreciate the support, guidance, and words of encouragement you have shown me and the staff at the facility. Thank you. Becky 1 Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. 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