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Council Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee
COUNTY COURTHOUSE
311 Grand Avenue, Ste 4105
Bellingham, WA 98225-4038
(360)778-5010
Committee Minutes - Final
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
2PM
Council Chambers
COUNCILMEMBERS
Barry Buchanan
Tyler Byrd
Carol Frazey
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
Dana Brown -Davis, C.M.C.
Council Criminal Justice and Public Committee Minutes - Final January 28, 2020
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Call To Order
Roll Call
Committee Chair Barry Buchanan called the meeting to order at 2 p.m. in the Council
Chambers, 311 Grand Avenue, Bellingham, Washington.
Present: 3 - Barry Buchanan, Tyler Byrd and Carol Frazey
Absent: None
Also present: Rud Browne, Tyler Byrd, Ben Elenbaas, and Kathy Kershner
Special Order of Business
1. AB2020-057 Assignment of staffing responsibilities for the Public Health, Safety, and Justice Facility
Needs Assessment, including the project website and the Stakeholder Advisory
Committee (SAC)
Cathy Halka, Council Office, described the involvement of Council Office
staff in the project management of the needs assessment, including
maintaining a project website, meeting assistance for the Stakeholder
Advisory Committee and briefing the Executive's Office about those
meetings.
Buchanan moved to assign Council Office responsibilities to the Public
Health, Safety, and Justice Facility Needs Assessment project.
Halka answered questions about how much the investment would be in
terms of staff time.
Tyler Schroeder, Executive's Office, and Satpal Sidhu, County Executive,
answered questions about what resources from the Executive's Office and
other departments would be dedicated to the project; how necessary data
will be obtained for the needs assessment; the involvement of the INDEX
Subcommittee of the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force in
the process of gathering data; collecting questions from Councilmembers
that they would like Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK) to
answer; how many other proposals were received from the County's
Request for Proposal (RFP) for public services for the development of a
needs assessment and how the proposals compared.
Buchanan withdrew his motion and moved to hold in committee.
Buchanan's motion that the Special Order of Business be HELD IN
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COMMITTEE carried by the following vote:
Aye: 3 - Buchanan, Byrd and Frazey
Nay: 0
Absent: 0
Other Business
Adjournment
Discussion continued about building community trust and how to decide on and
present a solution for a facility that the voters would support.
The meeting adjourned at 3:09 p.m.
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