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Commissioners Prioritize jail master plan and radios as top FY26 capital needs
Summary
At a special budget workshop, Rio County commissioners discussed advancing a jail master plan and buying radio equipment this fiscal year, citing recurring inmate housing costs and recent flood-related communication failures.
Commissioners Court met in a special budget workshop to discuss FY2026 priorities, focusing on a long-term jail master plan and improving radio communications for emergency responders. Nut graf: Commissioners and the sheriff said recurring costs for transporting and housing inmates and recent failures in handheld radio coverage during flood responses make a jail planning process and improved interoperable radios priority budget items. The sheriff said the county currently spends roughly $2–3 million a year sending inmates to outside facilities and urged the court to treat that as a recurring…
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