Exterior view of the LEC
POUGHKEEPSIE – Dutchess County Comptroller Robin Lois issued her first report in office: a comprehensive financial accounting of the Dutchess County Jail project.
This report covers all phases of the project, currently expected to cost over $200 million, and details all of the payments made in connection with this project through March 31, 2018.
Lois says construction of the Law Enforcement Center is on budget, 40 percent complete, and on target for substantial completion by this November.
The proposed Justice and Transition Center is in the design phase and could go to bid by January.
“As this capital project is the largest ever undertaken by Dutchess County Government it is rightly a project of great concern to the taxpayers, and it is important to keep everyone informed as to the spending, vendor contracts, and construction time line during the project,” said Lois. This is the first of a series of reports that the comptroller’s office will present to the public as the project progresses.
County Executive Marcus Molinaro said the report demonstrates that the new facilities will “provide the necessary space to expand the county’s innovative restorative justice programs to better transition inmates back into the community and decrease future recidivism as well as provide taxpayers with annual operational savings.”
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