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Show Tail esipaiasioini needed Trailer may be used as a stop gap FARM1NGTON -- Although it's only been six years since Davis County's jail was expanded, a need for more space won't go away. IN FACT, Sheriff Brant Johnson is exploring a "stop-gap" option that would add 26 beds, especially useful in the peak weekend periods when work-release inmates tend to swell the 100-bed faclity. A $70,000 proposal, that would cover expenses through year's end, has been explained .to the county commission. It would include in-clude a "trailer pod" that could be added to the jail with the only entrance entr-ance from the jail building. IT'D SERVE as a "holding dormitory dor-mitory "-type facility with a similar pod in use at the state prison and elsewhere, he said. Averaging 90-98 prisoners a day, that swells to as high as 117 on a recent weekend, he said. To help alleviate space pressures, the 12-cell 12-cell women's area has been renovated reno-vated for use by male prisoners. The jail averages only three-four women, he said, and they're being housed under arrangements with Salt Lake County Jail a practice that was previously used before the last addition, at times. STAFF WOULD probably need a four-person boost to provide one extra position a shift, Sheriff John-'son John-'son indicated, with two funding sources being studied to foot the bill. In related action, architects' proposals will be accepted until Aug. 30 for a new jail. After that date, materials will be analyzed and the sheriff hopes an architect can be selected by September. HE'S WORKING with the county coun-ty commission and clerk to set a bond date that would see an election elec-tion late this year or early in 1986. The amount can't be determined until architects' proposals are received. re-ceived. A lot have wondered where the new facility will be placed, but Mr. Johnson emphasized "the site will be the last thing (decided) after the bond election." |