ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) -- This month's scheduled shutdown of the Standish Maximum Correction Facility and the loss of its 300 jobs are giving new impetus to supporters and opponents of housing Guantanamo Bay inmates there.

Officials in Au Gres and Arenac County passed resolutions last week supporting the transfer of the detainees to Standish, about 150 miles north of Detroit, to temper the economic impact of the prison's scheduled Oct. 31 closure. The Standish City Council is expected to vote on a similar resolution Thursday.

But opponents will hold a forum in Rochester, near Detroit, at 7 p.m. Monday to renew their arguments against housing the detainees in Standish.

"Everyone thinks Standish is off the table, but it's not," Dave Munson of Standish, a founder of the Michigan Coalition to Stop Gitmo North, told the Detroit Free Press for a story published Sunday. "If they bring those people here, we become the center of the bull's-eye."

President Barack Obama has pledged to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba by January, but administration officials recently said he might miss that target. Among possible U.S. destinations for about 150 Guantanamo detainees are the Standish prison and the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, officials have said.

Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee and an outspoken opponent of transferring the Guantanamo inmates to U.S. soil, said recently that Pentagon officials have told him the Standish prison no longer was being considered.