30 counties considering legal settlement about oversight of Eldora juvenile detention center
Supervisors in more than two dozen Iowa counties are considering a proposed settlement related to a juvenile detention center in north central Iowa.
A lawsuit filed by supervisors in Hardin County challenged whether officials from several other counties, including Mitchell, Bremer, Grundy, Fayette and Jones, were properly added to the commission that oversees the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora.
Hancock County Supervisor Gary Rayhons says under the settlement, five counties will reapply to be part of an agreement that allows counties to send juvenile offenders to the detention center in Eldora.
Floyd County is one of those five counties needing to reapply, a topic approached during Tuesday’s (09.09) Board of Supervisors meeting by Supervisor Boyd Campbell, the County’s liaison to the proceedings.
There were originally 10 people serving on the juvenile detention center’s commission, but membership had swelled to 30. Hardin County officials argued due to changes in the original 1993 agreement among counties, it was unclear if all those people had the authority to approve binding contracts or vote for the commission’s public meetings to go into closed session.
