Commissioners spent the morning Tuesday meeting with the fire chief, sheriff and other county agencies about where tax money needs to be spent.
Sheriff Michelle Cook says the county has outgrown its jail, and she’s also looking at a possible plan to shutdown and sell substations in Orange Park, Green Cove Springs and Middleburg, and possibly move into places like large strip malls where citizens could go in and do things like request police reports.
“It’s easy to say that it’s an 800-pound gorilla because it’s so expensive to build a new jail,” Condon said. “But the sheriff has really worked with the commissioners where we’ve been able to allocate $5.2 million in funding to give her an expansion for five to seven years. So we are really in a good place for five to seven years.”
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