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Sumner County committee debates recovery court build-out and swaps funding schedule to extend timeline
Summary
Judge Ron Blanton and county staff discussed scope changes to a planned recovery court space, asked the committee to preserve access to a secured hallway for inmate transfers and requested flexibility on funding timing; committee considered swapping two opioid-abatement payments to give the project more time.
Judge Ron Blanton, who oversees the local recovery court program, told the Sumner County Opioid Abatement Committee that a recent blueprint for an administration building renovation had been altered without input from recovery court staff and would block secured access needed to bring inmates into a classroom used for evaluations.
Blanton said the shaded area on the submitted schematic removed a door and placed a new wall where the program needs one. He asked the committee to move a short interior wall so the classroom could be secured and inmates could be brought in from the locked corridor: “All I'm asking for was the wall to be be up down here so it would all be secured,” Blanton said.
The request matters to the county because the committee has already set aside opioid-abatement funds to support the recovery court project. County staff…
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