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® r r The Board of County Commissioners reconvened at 12:40 o'clock P.M. with the same members present, Commissioner Wodtke having left the meeting earlier. DISCUSSION RE COUNTY PROBATION OFFICER Chairman Lyons reported that Judge Hatcher of Jackson County came to town to give us a rundown on the use of a County Probation Officer. Judge Hatcher has had nine years experience with this. The Chairman stated that there is no question in his mind that we can save money and jail space in the long run with a probation officer and also can get a lot more fines collected than we now are able to. He continued that at the next meeting he will come back with more detailed material and a proposal for the County to set up a Probation Department. The Chairman further informed the Board that at the recent meeting, the Judges were still very disturbed that the County has not come up with any new space, and they feel that they are getting close to the end of what they can do to hold down the jail population. One of the things that keeps coming up is a County farm, and one thought that occurs re this electronic surveillance is whether we might have people do time growing vegetables for the jail and then stay at home under electronic surveillance. The Chairman noted that he is asking the Administrator to look into this, and will wait until the next meeting to present the rest of the story. GIFFORD HOUSING IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE Chairman Lyons stated that the idea of this committee is to be sure that all who have anything to do with improving the housing in Gifford get together. Part of the problem is razing those structures that need to be razed, and he believed in order to accomplish this, you need information from the community itielf. He noted that he has had two other suggestions of organizations to get involved in the committee besides the Gifford Progressive Civic League, those being Environmental 117 61fft184- � JUN 5 1985 SWK