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The Colorado County Commissioners Court approved an architectural assessment for a proposed new county justice center with a jail during its meeting, Monday, April 27.
The assessment will evaluate the condition of the county’s current facilities, including the courthouse, county offices and jail, staff growth projections and budget estimates. County Judge Ty Prause said court officials previously met with the assessors, Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects, and spent the day visiting various facilities. Sheriff Justin Lindemann explained the immediate need for maintenance and the increasingly pressing need to expand the conjoined jail and sheriff’s office.
“Our facility has gotten 30 years out of it without any updates. We just started doing the updates recently,” Lindemann said. “… [The building] wasn’t structured to expand necessarily. It was built for the jail purposes, so we got to look at updates and an expansion of the sheriff’s office in the near future.”
