{"id":19971,"date":"2019-11-06T17:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61381"},"modified":"2019-11-07T08:12:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:12:28","slug":"voters-reject-new-jail-county-still-seeks-financing-for-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/voters-reject-new-jail-county-still-seeks-financing-for-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters reject new jail; county still seeks financing for facility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Grand County Sheriff’s Office was built in 1983 and voters rejected a sales tax increase to pay for a new facility.<\/strong>
McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

In Tuesday\u2019s election, Grand County voters resoundingly opposed a .2% sales tax increase to help pay for a new $28 million public safety facility, which has sent the county back to the drawing board to figure out how to finance the project.<\/p>\n

County Commissioner Rich Cimino said he was disappointed voters did not want to share the burden of the cost but that doesn\u2019t negate the urgent need for a new facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a very strong message that the voters were very opposed to additional sales tax or did not feel a new public safety facility is necessary at this time or both, so we need to respect what the voters said yesterday,\u201d Cimino said. <\/p>\n

Sheriff Brett Schroetlin echoed Cimino\u2019s disappointment. Schroetlin added he would continue to try to educate the public about the need for a new facility and the dangers posed by the existing building.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe obviously have a jail that\u2019s failing, so the commissioners and I need to meet and come up with what this means for Grand County,\u201d he said. \u201cRight now, we are spending a lot of money to keep the facility operational, and we know that every year we delay building costs, it potentially cost the taxpayers a lot more money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the county has already invested in a facility needs assessment and conceptual designs for the project, Cimino expects the county to utilize that information moving forward and consider certificates of participation to help fund the facility.<\/p>\n

However, without the revenue from a sales tax increase, Cimino explained that the county will begin to build up a savings account for all of the facility needs, including the jail, a health and human services office and new EMS facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe responsible thing to do is to work toward those already identified solutions rather than redoing them and start setting money aside each year to a buildings savings account and work toward satisfying our building needs within existing resources,\u201d Cimino said.<\/p>\n

The county\u2019s 2020 budget, while not yet finalized, already has a roughly $400,000 surplus that Cimino expects to be the start of the buildings savings account. <\/p>\n

He added that the county would probably try to build the fund up before spending any of the money, so a new public safety facility would likely be delayed by years.<\/p>\n

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The Grand County Sheriff’s Office was built in 1983 and voters rejected a sales tax increase to pay for a new facility.McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com In Tuesday\u2019s election, Grand County voters resoundingly opposed a .2% sales tax increase to help pay for a new $28 million public safety facility, which has sent the county back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 15:12:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19974,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971\/revisions\/19974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}