LECJamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County/City of Jamestown Jail Committee has reviewed preliminary design plans for expanding the Stutsman County Correctional Center.

Klein McCarthy,Project Manager, Scott Fettig presented three preliminary design plans for three options for the jail committee to consider: expanding the jail horizontally, expanding the jail vertically or building a new jail facility somewhere else.

Stutsman County Sheriff Chad Kaiser, Chad Jackson, county jail administrator, Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger and Casey Bradley, county auditor/chief operating officer, will revise the site plans and floor plans for the three options, develop cost budgets for each option, review operational staffing plans and prepare a final study document. No cost estimates were attached to any of the preliminary design plans.

Fettig said the two options for expanding the existing correctional center would require closing a block of 6th Street Southeast between 2nd Avenue Southeast and 3rd Avenue Southeast. Both options for expanding at the current site include adding two more floors above the existing correctional center.

Fettig said the only way the existing facility can be added to vertically is by using lighter-weight construction material, rather than traditional cement-block-and-mortar construction.

The Stutsman County Commission and Jamestown City Council are splitting the $60,000 cost for a feasibility study being done by Klein McCarthy Architects, Bismarck.

The jail committee is about halfway through the process of being able to make a recommendation on whether the existing facility should be expanded or a new facility built.