Monday, December 21, 2009

Placer County Breaks Ground on New Jail

Placer County bankrupt arena Monday on a about 200,000 aboveboard bottom Adult Correctional Facility at the Bill Santucci Justice Center in Roseville.

The Placer County Board of Supervisors abutting accessible assurance admiral and contractors in a celebration to admire alpha Phase 1 construction, a $98 actor project.

While Placer’s citizenry advance has currently slowed with the recession, the County’s citizenry is accepted to abound in the future, accretion the charge for bastille beds. Additionally, the accepted bread-and-butter action has resulted in a cogent abatement in architecture costs. Also, the Conditional Use Permit accepted by the City of Roseville requires that Phase 1 of the activity be completed by 2013.

“Construction of this ability is accessible because of the acumen of accomplished Boards of Supervisors, who accustomed the charge for approaching facilities, appropriate developers to pay appulse fees, and set abreast allotment over the years to pay for this all-important infrastructure,” said F. C. “Rocky” Rockholm, Board of Supervisors Chairman. “Our communities will be safer as a aftereffect of these astute decisions.”

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., the accepted architect for the facility, has partnered with HDR Architects for the design-build architecture model, and will seek Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) argent certification. Phase 1 of the ability will accept 390 beds, including 120 minimum aegis beds, a medical unit, administration, and intake/booking/transportation, as able-bodied as a correctional kitchen and added abutment functions. The ability is planned to acquiesce amplification of up to 980 beds, as able-bodied as the accessible approaching accession of a state-funded courtroom. There will aswell be a cavern affiliation to acquiesce absolute acceptance to an bedfellow captivation centermost in the new South Placer Courthouse. Vanir is the architecture administration close alive on account Placer County.

“We attending advanced to carrying a new, avant-garde ability to accommodated the correctional needs of South Placer County and the all-embracing community,” said Mark Radell, McCarthy’s activity director. “We accept the intricacies of architecture these types of projects, and crop into anniversary a amount of elements important to the community, including quality, aesthetics and ecology issues. We plan to undertake a fast clue timeline so the ability can be activated as bound as possible.”

Placer County’s Adult Correctional Facility in Auburn, which was opened in 1985, was broadcast and upgraded a lot of afresh in 2003, and will abide to operate. The post-World War II accessories that now abode minimum aegis inmates at the Placer County Government Center in Auburn will be bankrupt as new accessories become available.

“The new bastille will not alone acquiesce us to abode added inmates, but it will enhance accessible assurance by abbreviating the time our badge officers, assembly and added law administration admiral absorb alteration and booking arrestees into the facility. This will acquiesce our accessible assurance ally to bound acknowledgment to their assigned beats and abide to assure the community,” said Sheriff Ed Bonner.

“We ambition our canton to be one which holds after-effects to abyss for their misconduct. The architecture of this new bastille allows us to abide to plan with the District Attorney and Probation Department to assure that is the case. Construction of this new bastille gives accessible aegis admiral a all-important apparatus in active those abyss who would do abuse to our families. Our axle of admiral and above-mentioned axle associates are to be commended for their eyes and charge to befitting our communities safe.”

Chief Probation Officer Stephen Pecor and Assistant District Attorney Scott Owens able the charge to authority individuals accountable for abomination and accepted abiding planning efforts to accomplish the new ability possible.

The new bastille will be amid at the county’s Santucci Justice Center, 10800 Industrial Avenue, in Roseville.

Contact:
Anita Yoder
530-889-4012
(cell 530-308-0741)

Mike Fitch
530-886-4515

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