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1 54 PAYROLL con't 833 C.E. LeVesseur 25.00 834 Al Dupre 34.33 835 Roy Backlin 272.25 836 Robert Lundgren 195.05 837 Emil Rehbein 148.05 838 Virgil M. Beecher 121.02 The following is the report issued by the committee formed to study the Youth Center. (Full report on file in Clerk's office) FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: 1. The hard core delinquents should be removed, because the facility and security is not designed for the hard core delinquent nor is the program adequate to han- dle them. See Security Report. 2. There is a high rate of escapes making it almost impossible to provide ad4late police protection. See Security Report. 3. The security personnel and additional necessary help should be adequately trained to handle the type of personnel present at the institution. The salary of a corrections officer is the principal concern in that this is one of the key personnel in dealing with delinquents and yet a low starting salary prohibits the hiring of even minimum qualified personnel. See Report Listing of Jobs and Salary. 4. The physical plant and facilities are inadequate in many respects. Look to the Security Report, Recreation Report. See Report - Training Program for Counselors. 5. In some cases responsibilities assigned to personnel in the professional and semi - professional are beyond the skill and capabilities of the people hired to do the job, and tie salary level is inadequate to attract the personnel able to meet the qualifications that have been set up in the job descriptions. See Report - Training Program for Counselors. 6. There has been a lack of in- service training. There has been a lack of money to provide adequate in- service training. See Reports - Listing of Jobs and In Service Training Program for Counselors. 7. The efforts tounderstand or work with the community have been inadequate. See security report. 8. There has been no effort made to restrict the population of the institution to keep it within the designed capacity. Need for maximum capacity as was done in 1967 legislature, which limited the number in the Red Wing School. Present practices would indicate that they have not restricted the population to tpe type of offender which was anticipated when the Center was designed and constructed; as a result of which there are hard core youthful delinquents in the institution for which tere is neither security nor facilities nor program; with all the resultant problems inherent in that type of arrangement the hard core should be removed from the institution. 9. An Institutional Administrator should be an administrator and not have a dual role as administrator and respo nsibility for treatment policies.