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Peoria County outlines pay-as-you-go options and timeline for jail master plan; staff eyes $3.5 million design budget
Summary
County staff showed a pay-as-you-go tool and 15-year repair history for the Peoria County Jail, proposing the kitchen and laundry as Phase 1 (estimated $7–$10 million) and $3.5 million in FY26 for engineering/design. Staff discussed capital-project tradeoffs, Keystone Fund loan options and ARPA interest.
Peoria County staff presented funding options and a new interactive "pay-as-you-go" tool to plan repairs and renovations identified in the jail master plan, with the committee focusing on the kitchen and laundry as an initial phase.
Staff summarized 15 years of jail repair and maintenance spending (through September 2025) and said the county has spent roughly $9 million on repairs since 2011. The presentation broke spending down by source: roughly $6.8 million from the capital projects fund, about $941,000 from ARPA dollars, and roughly $1.1 million from the general fund over that period. Shelby Valente, the county’s budget and finance analyst, helped develop the interactive tool the committee used to run scenarios.
The committee discussed a…
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