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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 16 about a 17,000 square foot building. He referred to page 8 of the abstract, and said 15,000 square feet of the center would be interior space, and 2,000 would be outside demonstration area. Commissioner Gordon said this agricultural center Commissioner Jacobs was talking about was something different. Jeff Thompson said the interior space would remain the same, but the exterior space that interfaces with the larger acreage is different and makes a lot of sense. Commissioner Gordon said there are two different things being looked at here, one is the reconfigured office space for the agencies, and the other is the conception of an agricultural center. Dave Stancil said there is a lot of interest in this center due to the idea of a large meeting area. Commissioner Gordon said there are two different concepts being looked at and it may be good to talk about phasing or even two different buildings. She said it make sense to her to do a new building. Paul Laughton reviewed Attachment C regarding the new jail project. He said there is a total price of $30 million budgeted for design and construction. He said the major construction was to be in year 4 with a 250 bed capacity. He said there was discussion of breaking the project up into segments or pods. He said this is what is outlined on page 10. He said $500,000 was kept for design and professional services in year 2 and 3, and the year 4 construction was kept, looking at a revised plan. He said there is an expansion concept shown on pages 12 and 13. He said this contains 3 different segments or pods with a wide range of beds and capacity. He said the new amount of $23.76 million in construction is basically for a jail with a 216 bed capacity. He said this 216 bed concept could also be done in pods. Chair Jacobs asked Cheryl Young to come up to microphone since she is the support staff for the Jail Alternatives Work Group. He said there has been some discussion about the size of the pods. Cheryl Young said this is extremely preliminary, as it relates to the pod concept. She said there is still a lot of time to work on this. She said 221 is the topped out sum of 140 local inmates plus the current contracted 75 inmates. Chair Jacobs asked if Sheriff Pendergrass had any comments about the jail concept. Sherriff Pendergrass said this project will need to go forward. He said the daily capacity last year was 130 inmates per day, and there was an average of 65 federal inmates daily last year. He said there will need to be at least a 250 bed jail in the near future due to the impact from state decisions. Commissioner McKee said he hopes staff is working with the sheriff's department on the actual layout and design to make sure it works on a daily basis on the ground. John Sellew said the consultant has been working with them on the preliminary sketches. Commissioner Gordon said the state may be changing requirements and she asked if the prisoners will have to go to another County if there is not enough space. John Sellew said the only alternative if there were not capacity would be to farm these inmates out to other counties and pay whatever price is being charged. Commissioner Gordon asked about the advantages and disadvantages of taking federal inmates. She said her understanding is that the average net income to Orange County for this relationship is $268,000 in net revenue. She said the capital cost is $7.5 million. She said if you divide this out, it takes 28 years to reach $7.5 million. She asked for an explanation of the economy of taking federal prisoners. Sheriff said he does not know that this can be explained. He said over the last 30 years the County has probably raised about $60 million from the federal government that could have