Though still within the overall budgetary parameters of the public safety bonds that Hays County voters approved in 2016, expansion at the Hays County Jail on Uhland Road in San Marcos as well as the construction of the Public Safety Building on Wonder World Drive, also in San Marcos, required change work orders, which the Commissioners Court passed with unanimous votes Oct. 22.
According to Codi M. Newsom of ECM International, who gave an update to commissioners and County Judge Ruben Becerra, progress on the jail addition has been delayed for about five months due to a combination of factors, and that slowdown “trickled down” to the other portions of the project like the training building and renovation of the existing jail facility.
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