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M seminar he attended had a great deal of information as to how to protect yourself with the new approach. Commissioner Bird stated that he would be agreeable to taking the risk of some increased liability if it would result in a more efficient operation, and he did believe it would. As to how a transition would take place, Commis- sioner Bird assumed that the jail personnel would transfer over to the county payroll and operate under the County Administrator, and their retirement and benefits would not be affected by the transfer. Apparently there would be some overlap in the clerical end until a separate facility is built and possibly there would be some overlapping of responsibility in the transporting of prisoners to court, to the doctor, etc. Administrator Wright stated that he has talked to the Sheriff about this at length, and he believed these are resolvable problems much the same as we had when we transferred the Building Department to the County. Commissioner Bird questioned whether the time period between now and October 1st is adequate for this transition and went on to discuss the relative merits of waiting to make the change until the facility is ready for occupancy. Administrator Wright stated that his thoughts are that we should be under construction three months into the fiscal year, and he felt it would be greatly preferable to have the .facility while it is being built so you can make the invariable changes that will have to be made while it is ongoing; this also will cut out one extra step. The Chairman agreed this would give us the advantage of working through the design phase with the architect, and Commissioner Lyons noted that moving is always a traumatic experience, and if we are able to get the paper department completely under control during the interim period, at least we don't have to cope with two things at once. 3 JUL 10 1984 sooK 7