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said, he was sure the Board would have addressed the problem; however, the Commission was told that it can be done and it is a great jail. Lieut. Bill Baird, former Administrator of the Corrections Division, informed the Board that when the final plans were made after a year and a half of planning and the Commission set a budget, Frizzell brought in the final design and made a presenta- tion, explaining that all of your support services have been sanforized to this point and the options you have are less jail beds or more support services. We had already reduced the number of jail beds by over 50; so, the decision was reached through committee and in here that the best course we could have was to compromise the support services - booking, medical, etc., and reach as many jail beds as we possibly could which was 146. This question arose again in Phase 11 where they questioned if the kitchen would be adequate for that phase, and they reduced the number of isolation cells from 13 down to 4. Commissioner Eggert did not want to put any money in anything thatgives our prisoners a more country club atmosphere, but felt that we do need adequate facilities for staff and support services. Commissioner Wheeler commented that we can continue to go over this and throw stones, but he was one of the original members of the Jail Study Committee who were in favor of doing the entire complex at one time, which at that time was projected at a cost of around 12 million. He was opposed to cutting back then, and he is opposed to cutting it back now since anything in the future will cost us more. Lieut. Baird noted that they were trying to design something that was most staff efficient, but also would conserve space. They could have got more space if they went into less staff efficient designs, but the purpose was to try to minimize the cost of staff. APR 121988 36 BOOK 72 f',,GE 36