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03.28.23 Tues PM BOCC
Meeting Highlights:
• Seasonal full-time assistant hired for the Fairgrounds
• Community Health Director gives instructions for using Narcan to save overdose victims; 16 opiods deaths a year since 2021; Covid still here but “people aren’t dying”
• Sheriff discusses Brady law requiring injection sites, law enforcement’s inability to arrest; department staff of 85 has ten unfilled posts
• Prosecutor’s office counts successful convictions in murder, robbery, assault cases
• Chief Civil Deputy Esther Milner’s work praised by Prosecutor and Commissioner Branch
• Public Records Coordinator post filled
• Some District Court costs possibly reimbursed after Blake decision invalidated drug possession felony; security officers now in courtroom
• Superior Court clients now must take a number
• State to fund windows for Courthouse annex
• WSU Extension seeks volunteers to judge 4-H Fair projects
• County’s appointed on-call architect learns at meeting it was also selected for current projects–Law and Justice Center renovation discussed
• TD&H Engineers to tackle multiple Courthouse projects