Collin County staff outline roughly $522 million in facility projects; transportation needs flagged at about $790 million

County officials laid out a sweeping set of facility and infrastructure priorities that together would require hundreds of millions of dollars in bond funding and years of phased construction.

Yoon Kim, the county administrator, told the Commissioner's Court that staff updated earlier budget-workshop material and that the package of facility projects — jail expansion, courthouse Phase 2, a 78,000-square-foot administration building, a 50,000-square-foot records facility, additional elections space, a juvenile cluster and related renovations — amounts to roughly $522,000,000 in preliminary estimates. "As of this morning, our jail currently has 1,174 individuals," Kim said, listing 1,076 inmates in the main jail, 76 in minimum security and 22 in the infirmary, plus 78 housed out of county. "We are at over 85% capacity at our jail," he added, and staff recommended an expansion cluster to add beds and finish out medical-mental…