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Orange County Sheriff requests multiple capital projects; corrections report shows rising population and staffing vacancies
Summary
The sheriff asked the Legislature to create or reallocate funds for preliminary engineering on a range building, a new canine facility, perimeter-door replacements, and dock/sally-port repairs; the corrections division reported an average daily population of 456 and 21 vacancies.
Orange County legislators approved requests to reallocate and appropriate preliminary engineering and maintenance funding for several sheriff’s capital projects and heard corrections and patrol reports showing a rising jail population and staffing vacancies.
The committee approved preliminary engineering and design funding of $100,000 (bonding) for a proposed range building (project 122, legislative request 152). The sheriff's office said the new building would include a tower for range observation and an indoor training area to reduce weather impacts on training.
The committee also approved $250,000 for architecture/engineering…
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