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Board directs consultant to model two jail scenarios after decades of planning; staff to return with operational and staffing analysis
Summary
After a multi‑decade review of jail needs, the Board of Commissioners directed staff to finish a second‑phase study and operational modeling for two expandable options (a roughly 400‑bed option and a roughly 500‑bed option, each with an expandable core); commissioners emphasized designing an expandable core to avoid future capacity shortfalls.
The Union County Board of Commissioners on Thursday directed county staff and consultants to complete the next phase of a jail study, asking for operational modeling and staffing cost estimates for two design options: a roughly 400‑bed option and a roughly 500‑bed option, each paired with a 600‑bed “core” design that can be expanded later.
County Manager Brian Matthews reviewed a decades‑long timeline of planning dating to the early 1990s, when a court consent order and earlier studies first drove discussions about jail replacement and expansion. Matthews walked the board through multiple prior studies and bond votes, noting prior design work and the effect of inflation on cost…
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