03-24-2026 Council [50:16-55:20]

through their entry into the community, so again, trying to reduce recidivism, while promoting successful reintegration into, into the community, gives job specific and some soft skills, career counseling, job placement assistance, things like that, and again, that goes with them afterwards. They can, like, our person who does that will stay with them and continue to meet with them afterwards, and help them too, if people will take advantage of that. We have a religious-based addiction class there. We also meet with them after they get out of jail, if they want to continue, hope resource center, and we have a partnership with them. They come in weekly, and they have a men's and a women's life skills class, and they also have some, like pregnancy testing and other types of testing that they do for free for us in there. We have two weekly church services, from different ministers that come in, have a fully electronic law library for them to do their legal research, and that's all completely free, and then an extensive electronic library, where they have thousands and thousands of books they can choose from to read, and also on the tablets, they have access to, they have to pay for this, to come, sorry, but they can rent movies or music games and stuff like that to do things. Then we have the inmate worker program, where usually we have about nine inmate workers at a time who help do things in the kitchen and stuff, and they get a few extra benefits by that, and one of those, they get a real fancy, a really nice meal once a week and some things like that. Those were some of the big things, the other cooperation with other agencies. Of course, we have a great relationship with the state police and working the drug investigations and stuff with them, and have a really good relationship with all the local departments. I would say the thing that is the toughest for us as far as that, and I know Rick and Scott had been kind of working on this a little bit. We didn't get too off of fire, but it's just, the town of Olidic is kind of a challenge for us, kind of with their staffing shortage, we basically covered for about three and a half months or so, we covered Olidic 24-7, like they had nobody working, so we were taking all of the calls over there, and now they have a full-time marshal over there, but he works 10-hour days, so then we are covering, we basically are covering all but 40 hours a week of everything that happens in Olidic, so luckily there's not a million things that happen in Olidic, but that's just another, you know, that stuff that in the past, the Sheriff's Department didn't have such a high responsibility of a number of hours we covered, and that has increased dramatically to you, so really just in closing, I just wanted to brag on the work that the men and women do over there, especially when we talk about the positions that we've cut from the budget things, and my major who has a million responsibilities, and with training, everybody as well, he's been working, he's for basically all year, he worked the road, he gave up his weekends off, and working the road a couple of days a week to do that, I work on the road as much as I can and go out and help take calls and things like that, he even come out and work some second and third shifts often, so anyway, I just, a lot more details in there, but I wanted to highlight those, because there was a lot of great stuff that got done by our folks over there, so I mean, if I have any questions on any of that, you're still doing five days a week? Correct. I'm sorry, what? The mental health part. Yeah, so, oh, in the jail? Yeah. So yeah, so on the medical side of things, we have 84 hours of nursing there all the time, so 12 hours, 7 days a week, we have a nurse inside there, we have a doctor or a practitioner that comes in one day a week and sees everybody that they need to see, and then our mental health, we have, through the county, we pay, and this is the commissioners approved using some of the opioid settlement to help us pay for the mental health, so we pay for about 20 hours a week of mental health services over there, and then through that grant, through our medical provider and the Sheriff's Association, we get another 20 hours where they are there and do so. So for 40 hours a week, we have mental health services there as well, so I should have brought that sheet, because I actually just met with our medical provider today, but it kind of broke down the successes that that has done, so it's been a really good thing for the jail,