Kootenai County commissioners weigh juvenile detention food contract, transit funding
Commissioners weighed a $345,636 transit amendment for paratransit and operating costs alongside a juvenile detention food-service item involving Summit Foods Service, LLC.
Kootenai County commissioners weighed a $345,636 Federal Transit Administration grant amendment and a juvenile detention food-service item involving Summit Foods Service, LLC during their July 28 business meeting in Coeur d’Alene. The meeting was held at 2 p.m. at 451 N. Government Way in the Administration Building meeting room 1A/B and was posted to the county’s YouTube channel the next day.
The transit item, listed as Grant Amendment ID-2020-008-01, Amendment 01, carried no match requirement and was tied to Kootenai County Transit. County documents said the money would be used for operating assistance, ADA complementary paratransit service, preventive maintenance, project administration and security services. The county also said it would charge a 15% de minimis indirect cost rate to Modified Total Direct Costs beginning Oct. 1, 2025 and forward.
That matters for riders who depend on county transit for work, medical appointments and errands, especially seniors and people who need paratransit service. A county certification document said the federal de minimis indirect cost rate was up to 15% of modified total direct costs as of Oct. 1, 2024, and a Citizen Portal summary said commissioners approved the FTA amendment to allow 15% indirect-cost reimbursement and move the $345,636 into indirect-cost lines.
The juvenile detention item pointed to a separate operational pressure point. The July 28 posting listed a bid-award or request-for-proposal item involving Summit Foods Service, LLC and juvenile detention, following the July 21 business meeting, when commissioners opened an RFP for juvenile detention food service and took up a clinician passthrough funds recipient agreement with the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections. Together, the items show the county was working through food service and clinical-service arrangements that affect daily operations inside the facility.
A second grant amendment, ID-2023-022-03, Amendment 03, also appeared in the July 28 posting, adding to the list of federal funding items on the agenda. The mix of transit reimbursement, detention procurement and grant modifications suggests the board was handling the financial mechanics that keep county services moving, from buses and paratransit to juvenile detention operations.
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