By Bruce Boyer
Sixty million tax dollars is being spent to build an additional jail building to house sixty jail inmates with four beds in a medical area. Yes, your tax dollars are going to be spent at one million dollars per jail inmate bed. Construction costs of nearly $1,000 per square foot! Are they building it out of marble and gold or some very pricey concrete? Construction costs for a deluxe home can run $300 per square foot, industrial is well under $200 per square foot.
What should it cost to build a jail-barracks to house sixty men? In the Army one barracks to house sixty men in bunks would be generous at 1400 sq feet. Add a medical room/sick bay and a day room office and two ‘counseling rooms” and you have 2250 sq feet, i.e. lots of room. Industrial construction standards would get that done for under $450,000 and furnish it with anything you want and equip it. The cost – $50,000. The County spent sixty million dollars on a $500,000 building.
This is not a ‘mistake’ or an ‘oversight’ this is a fundamental way that the County and the Sheriff’s office spend our tax money with zero concern as to who is paying for it.
We need a Sheriff than can get a half-million dollar jail-barracks built for a half a million, not sixty million dollars! I am that cowboy.
Bruce Boyer, candidate for Ventura County Sheriff.
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It looks as though wasting sixty million does not bother people???
Grading on a curve is not a std that we we should use for public accountability. There is ALWAYS something stupider, more corrupt more obscene. ‘Compared to the bullet train…” thinking. The Coiunty local officials are corrupt/incompetent regardless they should be fired!
Considering that more than twenty years ago the City of Ventura spent $250,000 to build an outhouse in the park in front of the post office, I guess 60 million isn’t that bad for something that actually is more than an outhouse.