Groundbreaking for the Cleveland County detention center will be 1 p.m. Monday at Franklin Road and 24th Avenue NW.
Centrally located between Norman and Moore, the new 542 bed center will sit on nearly 30 acres purchased from York International for $1.2 million. The 542 bed facility should open in the spring of 2011. A staff of 78 is planned.
The existing jail on Jones Avenue on the west side of the Cleveland County Courthouse has 178 beds and was last modified in 1985.
The center serves Norman, Moore, Noble, Lexington, south Oklahoma City and the University of Oklahoma police departments, the Cleveland County sheriff's department, Slaughterville, the unincorporated rural areas of Cleveland County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the fire marshal, iimmigration/naturalization, OSBI and the FBI.
Jail by the numbers:
· Jail committee formed November 2005
· AIP signed contract December 2005
· December 9, 2008, voters passed a 1/4 of one cent sales tax
· Contract signed with Timberlake Construction Co. Oct. 12 for $24,164,000
· As of Sept. 28, $1,211,728.74 sales tax has been distributed to the county.
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