Comal County commissioners to look at further charges for renovation projects | Group Alert

Comal County Commissioners will contemplate approving much more building job improve orders and an arrangement to board offenders from yet another county in the course of their weekly meeting on Thursday. 

They will look at an further $213,949 for the to start with variations associated with Comal County Sheriff’s Office renovations that will merge the aged county jail into the Fellers Legislation Enforcement Centre on San Antonio Road. 

Most of it will go towards introducing 20 new places of work in lieu of county owned and mounted cubicles.

The overall will be subtracted from county contingency in the $12.434 million job, leaving it with $379,000 remaining. It does not adjust the projected sizeable completion day, April 14, 2022.

SpawGlass Contractors, also in charge of that undertaking, will see $19,850 subtracted from its challenge contingency in the Courthouse Annex task, which will see the county’s share raise by an additional $94,424 just after commissioners approve the 10th modify order for that task.

Previous orders have greater Annex renovations by $998,759 Thursday’s approval will boost the charge to $11.978 million but not affect the substantial completion date of July 12.

The county will take into account an arrangement with Coryell County to property its prisoners inside of Comal’s new 582-mattress lockup, which was 62% occupied on Monday. In February, it accepted an settlement with Hays County to outsource up to 96 offenders as the county finishes growing its 30-yr-outdated lockup.

The county is charging $65 for each day for each individual inmate it boards, $20 far more than it paid out outdoors entities that boarded excess Comal offenders at the overcrowded previous 337-bed jail that will quickly be merged into CCSO’s recently renovated headquarters.

Sheriff Mark Reynolds has said the Texas Fee on Jail Standards has established a 90% threshold for the optimum number of offenders inside of the facility. The county, awaiting delays in federal processing, however wishes to total a detention providers settlement with the U.S. Office of Justice to board U.S. Marshal’s Provider offenders in the jail.

Following getting the COVID-19 update, entertaining feedback from citizens and reports from county staffers and elected officers on goods of neighborhood curiosity, commissioners will also focus on and take into consideration approving:

• Amended plats combining a lot in portions of the Canyon Lake Hills, Inland Estates, Rocky Creek Ranch and Rebecca Creek Park subdivisions.

• Acceptance of accomplished road and storm drinking water drainage enhancements in seven units of Stage 3 of the 4S Ranch subdivision, accept the streets into the county street technique for routine maintenance and releases of connected developer surety.

• Acceptance of completed road and storm h2o drainage advancements in 1 unit of the Park Village subdivision in Bulverde settle for the roads into the county road program for maintenance and launch of related developer surety.

• A ask for involving use of unclaimed home cash credits. Texas legislation lets counties to declare a part of unclaimed money credits originating from their county and use them for specific applications. The posted agenda did not point out the agency with unclaimed credits or what applications they would serve the county.

• Texas DPS Legislation Enforcement Guidance Office (LESO) 1033 Application and Point out Prepare of Functions agreements in between the point out and the CCSO and the Precinct 3 constable’s workplace.

• Employing Justice Court Know-how Cash for the Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace’s invest in of an Elmo Doc Digital camera.

Commissioners meet at 8:30 a.m. in Commissioners Courtroom, 100 Key Plaza in New Braunfels. Thursday’s meeting will be stay streamed to the public. To obtain the movie and conference agenda, stop by www.co.comal.tx.us/agenda.htm.