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Planning Continues For Osceola County Jail Renovation Project

February 19, 2024 Steve Schwaller

(Sibley)– Plans to remodel and add onto the jail in Osceola county are moving forward. Voters last November approved a $5 million bond issue for the project. Sheriff Kevin Wollmuth says final plans are being put together…

“The building’s going to run south along the west side of the courthouse and it’s going to be attached to our current building by what is called a sally port.”

Wollmuth says the facility will be one level…

“It’s for safety reasons for the dispatchers and the jailers and the deputy jailers and also for safety reasons for the inmates. We’re going to eliminate all stairs. Everything’s going to be on one level. We don’t have a total cost estimate yet. There’s a bunch of variables on there about what the total cost is going to be, so yeah, we don’t have that number yet.”

Wollmuth says some preliminary work for the project is already underway…

“They just finished up doing soil samples. Now what they’re doing is trying to get the engineers going and the next process is going to be start to dig and pour the footings.”

Plans call for construction to start in late spring or early summer. Wollmuth says the walls will be pre-cast, so the project may have to wait until the walls are complete and delivered.

Another aspect of the project will be some updates to the administration area to make it more ADA-compliant. Wollmuth says they don’t have a completion date yet for the project.

(Courtesy Community First Broadcasting station KIWA in Sheldon)

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