Jefferson County To Consider New Jail Monday Evening
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Jefferson County Quorum Court this evening is
to consider buying an $89,000 property for a new adult
jail.
Subcommittees have recommended approval, and if justices of the
peace agree, an existing building will serve as office space for
the jail.
County Judge Jack Jones wants to pay for the new budget
appropriation using money from a county bond sale instead of from a
half-cent sales tax increase approved by voters last year.
A 304 bed facility would then be built on the land at a cost of
about 11 million dollars. The plan is to open it by July 2006.
