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Commissioners authorize staff to negotiate sole‑source needs‑assessment contract as task force recommendations near rollout
Summary
County commissioners authorized staff to negotiate and potentially execute a sole‑source contract with a nationally experienced consultant to review prior jail needs assessments and produce options; staff said they are seeking MacArthur Foundation support but may fund the work from county fund balance if needed and will also proceed with an Essential Public Facility (EPF) process using SCJ.
Spokane County commissioners on May 5 discussed contracting with an outside consultant to update and synthesize prior needs assessments for the county’s justice facility and to model a set of options and cost ranges in anticipation of potential bond measures.
A commissioner said the county wants a firm with prior experience to "review all of our past iterations, all the assumptions, all the evaluations done by the various consultants" and to produce a simulated model laying out the…
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