The County Board agreed to renew its contract with the Brown County Evaluation Center in New Ulm for receiving juvenile detention service next year.

Wednesday, November 21, 2001

The County Board agreed to renew its contract with the Brown County Evaluation Center in New Ulm for receiving juvenile detention service next year.

With the contract, the county will be provided night-day temporary detention and long-term secure detention services for juveniles referred by county court services or law enforcement.

The county will pay a daily $125 per-use charge for temporary detention and $166 for the long-term. A $25,000 bond is also required.

The county made the initial contract with the center June this year after another juvenile detention facility in Fairmont went into de facto bankruptcy. Since then, the County has been using the Brown County Evaluation Center and another institution in Olmsted County.

The possibility to remodel the Western Grocery Building into a juvenile detention facility was once considered. But the county concluded it would be economically infeasible because of abrupt demands for the service and the high cost of maintaining staff members and programs.