News : Jail Update: Sheriff says new building to open between May 1 and June 1

The decorative area on the front, covered with limestone blocks from the old LEC...

...will also serve as the wheelchair access to the building.

Supervisor Ron Buch, left, and Jerry Petermeier look at the entrance to the EMA EOC.

Supervisors toured the LEC site Tuesday during their meeting.

Prisoners will have this view when they speak to visitors.

This is the sallyport, where prisoners will begin their journey into the new jail.

This is the view the prison visitors will have when talking to inmates.

Masons apply the limestone from the old LEC to the wall surrounding the wheelchair ramp.

The control area, from where the jailers will be able to monitor the entire jail area.

One of the nearly complete skylights in the LEC; the building should be in use by June 1.

Sheriff Randy Forsyth walked past what will soon be his new office in the Law Enforcement Center Tuesday afternoon. We asked him if he was moving in on May 1, the date he had mentioned several months ago.

"May 1, mabye; or May 15, but definitely by June 1," said Forsyth as he and jail administrator Mike Ferguson toured the building.

At the same time, project manager (and former county engineer) Jerry Petermeier led the county supervisors on a tour. They saw the building in a variety of stages of completeness. Painters were working in the jail area, covering the red of the heavy steel doors with a yellow tint. Electricians continued to work throughout the building. In the administrative area, workers were adding and finishing drywall. Outside, masons applied the limestone blocks saved from the old LEC to the decorative wall that surrounds the wheelchair access ramp.

Petermeier told the leaders that some of the windows installed were the wrong ones, and will soon be replaced.