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| Jail task force holds final meeting |
| By kccommunitynews.com - Travis Perry |
| Published: 08/17/2011 |
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Miami County Jail task force members last week officially finalized their recommendation for the county to pursue the construction of a new jail and the limited renovation of the existing facility. After previously splitting the 19-member panel into three smaller subcommittees to tackle a number of different aspects of the plan — including project financing, remodeling the current jail and potential jail programs and activities — committee members on Aug. 9 delivered their final reports, detailing the nuts and bolts of just how they think the county should go about building the new jail. While exact plans have yet to be finalized for layout and construction, task force members delivered their reports based on a design proposed by Goldberg, Sullivan and McCrerey Inc., who the county hired to study the current jail and to present options. The design set forth by GS&M called for a $6.4 million, 90-bed facility on a greenfield site. That price tag includes the estimated cost of remodeling the current jail. Don Jordan, former secretary of Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services and a member of the finance subcommittee, said with careful planning the county can accomplish the construction of a new jail without raising sales tax or increasing the mill levy. By 2015, he noted, the county’s obligation bond payments will drop from $2.45 million to $1.32 million per year. By utilizing savings and revenue from not farming prisoners out to other counties, combined with possibly delaying the project so payments are not due until 2015 or rolling the first two years’ interest payments into the total bond obligation to delay payments — or any combination thereof — there would be no extra burden on county taxpayers, Jordan said. Read More. |
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