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JOINT MEETING
FINANCE & ENGINEERING SERVICES COMMITTEES
Committee Room
September 22, 2003
PRESENT: Hons. Shepard, Finance Committee Chairman; Hankerson, Finance
Committee Co-Chairman; Williams and Bridges, members; Cheek, Engineering Services
Committee Chairman; Colclough, Engineering Services Committee Co-Chairman;
Boyles and Mays, members; Jim Wall, Attorney, Walter Hornsby, Deputy Administrator;
Lena Bonner, Clerk of Commission.
A. Discussion of proposed repairs to the Law Enforcement Center and the need
to begin immedftately to authorize and finance an additional jail pod. (See
background information under Item 14 on Finance Committee)
Mr. Shepard: We have assets at the Law Enforcement Center and the Phinizy
Road Jail. 1'd like to hear the alternatives and/or administration recommendations as to
how we're going to pay for what we're going to do.
Mr. Cheek: We need significant funding to bring the Law Enforcement Center up
to livable standards for the next few years. The question is do we want to take the money
and place it in a building that we may eventually abandon or use it to make payments for
the extension of the Phinizy Road Facility.
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Ms. Smith: SPLOST Phase IV identifIed about $850,000 for work at the facility.
$500,000 was for exterior repairs and $350,000 was for roofmg and waterproofmg
repairs. We had to identify items that were in need of repair and the first category
involved critical need items in the amount of $632,000. There is a second category that
identifIes serious problems and the cost of those is $255,000. Other items are in need of
attention but are not as serious as the first two and these total $146,000. That brings a
total of these three categories to $1,050,000. There were three options that were
identifIed to address the needs previously stated. Those were to complete the repairs in
order of need until the available funds are depleted. The second was to identify
additional funds in order to complete all of the repairs. Option 3 would be to not
complete any of the repairs and to relocate the detention operations elsewhere. Some
repairs, however, would have to be done in order for them to remain in operation.
Mr. Hankerson: Do we know the cost of an additional jail pod?
Mr. Acree: I believe it was about $5 million per pod and Phinizy Road can
support two more pods without making further infrastructure improvements.
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After a discussion, Mr. Shepard: My recommendation to the Finance Committee
would be that we fully fund from the money we additionally have the critical needs,
$631,000, and take that from the $772,000 we have in the bank and then we begin the
conversation about what we can do for alternatives.
Mr. Cheek: Could a joint resolution come forth from both these committees to
authorize to move forward to the Commission repair of using the existing funds identifIed
the critical items at the existing Law Enforcement Center with a work session to be held
in October to identify meeting with the Sheriff, members of the judiciary with a report
back on the SPLOST and a report from the judiciary on the types of incarcerations,
populations and so forth to comprehensively review needs for the future pod? Would that
be in order? .
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Mr. Wall: I would suggest that you take two separate votes with the Finance
Committee going fIrst.
Mr. Bridges: I so move that we apply the funds, use the funds for the critical
needs items this year.
Mr. Chairman: I'll second that motion.
Motion adopted unanimously.
Mr. Boyles: I move that we use the funds for the critical needs items this year.
Mr. Mays: Second it.
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, the meeting was adjoum~d.
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Motion adopted unanimously.
Lena J. Bonner
Clerk of Commission
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