Sumner County panel backs funding for recovery center build-out, debates indirect costs for partner services

A Sumner County opioid committee on May 8 discussed appropriating county funds to build out a recovery services site and to buy security and mail-scanning equipment for the sheriff’s office, and members debated whether to limit indirect costs claimed by a nonprofit partner.

The presentation by Speaker 2, staff member, said the project budget currently stands at $632,000 for the build-out, with $500,000 set aside by the county and $132,000 already appropriated to a nonprofit partner for build-out work. Speaker 2 also said the county may contract an architect, which “would be roughly a hundred to a hundred and 10,000,” and that a site walk-through with Judge Hunter and a member of the sheriff’s office is scheduled for June 4 to prepare a proposal and final scope.

The committee also discussed buying screening equipment for the jail. Speaker 2 described a plan to acquire additional body scanners and a new mail scanner for detection of contraband in inmate mail, saying the mail scanner “uses no radiation. It uses radio frequency ways to scan the mail,” and that…