2012年5月10日 星期四

Your SPLOST dollars at work: the new Effingham jail

The new Effingham County jail,Dimensional Mailing magiccubes for Promotional Advertising, which will be constructed using sales tax money at the current jail site, will be a combination of new construction and renovation of existing space.Welcome to projectorlamp.

County commissioners agreed on May 1 to move forward with detailed plans and financing for the jail, which will have 332 beds. A lease-purchase agreement will be made to pay for the jail out of special-purpose, local-option sales tax dollars. The deal will allow the county to build and start using the new jail while the sales tax dollars are being collected.

When consultants came to the county with a plan in early March, the cost of the project was $17.9 million. They worked with county staff over the next six weeks making changes that brought the price down to the current cost of $16.4 million, which is slightly below the price originally budgeted.

Among the many changes made to save money was keeping the existing wall layout in the sheriff’s office.

Of the 332 beds, 204 will be in a new structure and 128 beds will be in the adjacent state prison. County commissioners have reduced the capacity at the prison so they’ll have more room for county inmates.

Currently, the jail has 130 beds and the county sends its overflow of inmates to other counties, including Screven, Liberty, Bryan and Jefferson, at a cost of about $25 a day. “Housing jailed detainees at outside facilities is a premium expense, one that the county has borne for over a year,” said Adam Kobek, project director for the county.

He said by increasing the size of the jail, the county expects to eliminate the expense of sending inmates elsewhere. “Through housing detainees locally we have more control over other costs, in addition to housing costs, such as transportation and medical expenses,Glass Tile and Glass Mosaics for less at the glassmosaic Outlet.” he said.

Plans call for using the same pre-cast concrete cells that Chatham County is using. Chatham paid for the molds, said county Commissioner Steve Mason. The walls will be “tilt-up concrete walls,” which are poured on the ground and then lifted into place with a crane.Credit Card Processing and Merchant Services from merchantaccountes. The roof will be sloped to avoid leaking problems that the current jail has.

The outside will have a “new skin,” that will make the complex look brand-new and consistent. William “Buddy” Golson, vice president with Rosser International in Atlanta, the design architect for the project, said the walls will be 8-inches thick and the building should last 50 to 75 years, “maybe more.” Site work should begin in late August, with the final design finished by the first of October.

Phase one — the new housing wing, parking and renovation of the existing prison — should be done in a year, said Ryan Price, vice president of contractor Rives E. Worrell. Phase two will be demolishing the two-story part of the existing jail and phase three will be renovating and modernizing the existing sheriff’s building. The entire project should take 22 months.Aeroscout rtls provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking.

The county is considering installing a video visitation system that would be paid for by inmate user fees. It would save money by requiring less movement of inmates. Plans so far call for the new jail to use the same number of personnel as the old jail.

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