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BOOK 64 roi;E6i5 TO: Michael Wright DATE: February 13, 1986 FILE: County Administrator SUBJECT: Sheriff's Office and Communications Center FROM: Joseph A. Baird REFERENCES: OMB Director A budget for the Sheriff's Office and Communications Center has never been adopted. At the present time, I am not certain of the true capital cost of the facility, however, I have heard $2,500,000 mentioned. If this is the true figure, we will have to issue additional bonds since we borrowed $1,500,000 for the project. This would not normally concern me, but I am al- ready beginning to receive bills on the project. To satisfy legal requirements and to enable us to have a better idea of the true cost of the facility, I think someone may need to sit down with the Sheriff's staff and begin working on a line by line budget. The following are the standard line items we use in a project: All Travel Legal Ads Professional Services Engineering Services Land Construction in Progress Construction Interest Furniture and Other Office Equipment Other Machinery and Equipment Communications Equipment I am not sure where we stand as far as our authority or function in regard to the Sheriff's facility. Please advise, so that I do not get my horns trinir,ed. The Chairman emphasized that he does not sit here today to try to blame and he does not want to protract this situation, but he has had personal comments made about himself, his actions in relation to terminating the employment of Administrator Wright and possible interference with the administration, and he will not stand undefended. He emphasized that at the previous meeting he asked specifically if anyone wanted additional information because he would provide it and he had many more similar situations he wanted to present to the Board's attention, but he felt pursuing this at this point will take us nowhere. We need to set up a workshop and begin to solve our problems and unless he is pushed, he now will just ask staff to present 31