Public Safety Coordinating Council Meeting
The Public Safety Coordinating Council meets at 8:45 a.m. at the Emergency Operations Center in Bunnell, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Bldg. 3, Bunnell. The council, chaired by Sheriff Rick Staly, is a statutorily required panel that assembles law enforcement, judicial, social services and local government representatives to discuss public safety and direct related grants to the appropriate agencies. The council meets roughly quarterly.
From the county’s web page:
Function: The Public Safety Coordinating Council is responsible for:
- Assessing the population status of all detention or correctional facilities owned or contracted by the county
- Formulating recommendations to ensure that the capacities of such facilities are not exceeded
- Including an assessment of the availability of pretrial intervention or probation programs, work-release programs, substance abuse programs, gain-time schedules, applicable bail bond schedules, and the confinement status of the inmates housed within each facility owned or contracted by the county
- Developing a local public safety plan for future construction needs
- The plan must cover a five year period
- The plan may be submitted for consideration to the local planning agency for the county at least 120 days before the adoption of, or amendment to, the Comprehensive Plan (pursuant to part II of chapter 163).
