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| County Board interviews jail architects |
| By Kristin Jirovsky - Daily Sun |
| Published: 02/21/2009 |
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Roger Lichtman looked around the room full of Gage County employees and officials Wednesday night. “You’re about to engage on a long and strange journey.” The journey Lichtman was referring to is the path toward a new county jail. * Lichtman, of The Lichtman Associates based in New Jersey, was one of three potential architecture firms to be interviewed during public meetings at the courthouse Wednesday night. The other two firms in consideration and present Wednesday were Carlson West Povondra of Omaha and SFS Architecture of Kansas City, Mo. Searching for a jail architect is the next step toward the possibility of a new Gage County Detention Center. The current jail is overcrowded, Gage County Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson said, and is costing the county a large sum of money to house prisoners in other jails, as well as in facility maintenance costs. Each firm had an hour to present its plans for a better detention facility in Gage County. The preliminary plan, as discussed by Gustafson and the supervisors, calls for an 85-bed facility with room for future expansion if necessary. Lichtman and associate James Robertson, of Voorhis/Robertson Justice Services, Inc. of Denver, presented first. The two focused on the partnership they have. “We are involved in every project we commit to,” Lichtman said. “We have a combined 60 years of experience in doing exactly this type of work.” After touting their experience, Robertson gave a guided tour of what working with The Lichtman Associates would be like from day one. Robertson said he has had more experience with a jail than just planning how to build one. In 1972, he started out as a correctional officer in Montgomery County in Maryland. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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