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Yoakum County Breaks Ground on Law Enforcement Center

December 4, 2006 by admin

The land has been purchased, the ground has been broken, and the architect is fine-tuning plans for the new Yoakum County Law Enforcement Center. After a brief speech from Yoakum County Sheriff Don Corzine and Kenny Burns, of Burns & Gill Architects, county officials loosened the dirt on a small section of land cleared off by Precinct 3 employees for the early October groundbreaking event which drew some 60 supporters.
“The project has been a long time in the making,” Corzine said. “I thank the Judge (Dallas Brewer) for moving it along.”
Several people were instrumental in pursuing the project, he continued, including Yoakum County Commissioners Woody Lindsey, Ben Coston, Ty Earl Powell and Jack Cobb, and county attorney Richard Clark.
Construction is slated to begin in March 2007, and the estimated completion date is one year later. The size of the Center will be approximately 28,000 square feet with 20,000 earmarked for the jail and dispatch for the sheriff’s office. The remaining 8,000 square feet is dedicated to administration offices.
The Yoakum County Law Enforcement Center will be certified for 48 beds with housing for 54 inmates and will feature state-of-the art controls for electronic, computerized, conventional and closed circuit TV monitoring.
“I appreciate the opportunity to work for the county,” said Burns, project architect.
Yoakum County Judge-elect Jim Barron said he is “looking forward to working with the commissioners and architect and seeing this thing through.”
Information supplied by Derek Corzine, Editor, Denver City Press

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