Council Member Mealy Questions Crossroads Capacity and Bed Expansion

Yeah, I think we can explain some of it, and then I'll turn it over to Deputy Commissioner Ginsberg.

So the plan you're talking about.

So, first of all, I want to state first of all, no child, young person is sleeping on the floor.

I was there myself.

Some young people have temporary beds, but nobody is sleeping on the floor.

Chairs puts together to sleep in.

No, no, no.

No, they are giving a very we should do a walkthrough really soon.

We'd be happy to do that for sure.

Sometimes it's at major capacity, and that's why you don't have to do that.

So that's correct.

So we are so that's why we was put more money in to make sure that no one is and I gotta say crossroads sometimes have more employees than our young people near.

So it fluctuate, but recently it's been almost 90%.

So we are we are um building a temporary bed, temporary structure at crossroads.

Three beds.

No, no, no.

So that's it.

The three beds is different.

So last year's budget included funding, capital funding, either capital expense, Margaret, correct me, to do expense funding to do a temp was a somewhat temporary facility at crossroads to address capacity.

This year's budget includes funding unrelated to crossroads and unrelated to secure detention to take a non secure detention facility and make it a slightly large serve more children for close to home, so completely separate from crossroads from six to nine beds, but nothing to do with crossroads.

Crossroads, do you want to talk more?

You guys out loud to that.

So at Crossroads, we are planning to build an additional 28 beds.

There you go.

Okay.

There that will be two halls each.

Each hall will have education and programming space.

We are also planning for additional classroom space to accommodate the increased population.

Okay.

28 beds sound more like it.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

And we appreciated your visit and you're welcome to come back anytime.