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Clay County officials received a USDA loan for their $7.5 million jail project.
Board members will arrange interim financing through a local bank over the next few weeks. County Mayor Dale Reagan said they’ve been talking about this project for over six years.
“The design phase and stuff, it looks like it’s going to take about six months to do that,” Reagan said. “If we did get started in July, you’re looking at the end of December or something like that for it to be completed. It looks like around the first of the year they start out with the advertisement of bids, and that takes usually about another 30 days.”
Reagan said design schematics should finish by next month, and groundbreaking will hopefully begin next spring.
The loan’s interest rate is 3.5 percent and set up for 40 years. Reagan said the county needs this new facility.
“We’ve been under a plan of action for several years to build a new jail because our old jail was built back in the early 60’s,” Reagan said. “Our capacity is only 14 and we can’t have any females. We’re having to farm out all of our females and the majority of our males as well.”
The new facility will have a 100 bed capacity.
