{"id":197319,"date":"2020-04-22T07:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=197319"},"modified":"2020-04-22T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T13:19:51","slug":"bid-process-to-start-barnes-county-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=197319","title":{"rendered":"Bid process to start, Barnes County jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BarnesCountyCorrectionalCenterDrawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-190197\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BarnesCountyCorrectionalCenterDrawing-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BarnesCountyCorrectionalCenterDrawing-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BarnesCountyCorrectionalCenterDrawing-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/BarnesCountyCorrectionalCenterDrawing.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(CSi)\u00a0 The Barnes County Commission has approved going ahead with the bid process for a new jail.<\/p>\n<p>An option \u00a0includes or excludes a law enforcement center, regarding the cost of the bids submitted to the county over the next two months. Bids would be let on May 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed plan, a new jail and law enforcement center would be constructed east of the existing National Guard facility along the I-94 frontage road in Valley City.<\/p>\n<p>The new estimate to build a jail and sheriff\u2019s office is now at $15.9 million compared to $18.3 million released last month.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes County Commission President Bill Carlblom says the commission will make a final decision when they see what the lowest bid is on the total construction cost.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes County Auditor Beth Didier says the county would seek a 30 year bond to pay for the new jail at a cost of $805,000 annually to keep the project within the 10 mill requirement by the county.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the Department of Corrections said the 112 year old jail is unsafe for staff and inmates and no longer meets state required standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CSi)\u00a0 The Barnes County Commission has approved going ahead with the bid process for a new jail. An option \u00a0includes or excludes a law enforcement center, regarding the cost of the bids submitted to the county over the next two months. Bids would be let on May 18th. Under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197343,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197319\/revisions\/197343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}