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Holmes County board approves agreement needed to start $1 million jail rehabilitation project
Summary
The Holmes County board approved an agreement the county must have in place to show the jail building and begin engineering work, a prerequisite to spending about $1 million on rehabilitation and expansion.
The Holmes County board voted to approve an agreement with the jail project team that county officials said is required to begin work on a rehabilitation and expansion project estimated at about $1 million.
Planning and county board discussion focused on the immediate next step: engineering. Speaker 1, who described prior limited dealings with the jail party, told the board that the agreement must be in place with the county "because it shows the building to be able to start the process of spending that million dollars." The board moved, seconded and approved the agreement by voice vote.
Board members and staff said the dollar amount will be used initially for engineering and to start the project. No specific contractor or construction timeline was announced at the meeting. The motion was a voice vote; the transcript records assent but does not include a roll-call tally.
The board did not provide a detailed budget breakdown or schedule at the meeting and directed staff to proceed with the paperwork required to enable the engineering work.
