Dawson County has hired a financial advisor for a jail construction project but it likely will be months before county officials know exactly what kind of project they are looking at.
As expected, a committee that has been looking at options for the future of the county jail presented three broad recommendations on Tuesday to the Dawson County Commissioners Court.
Those options, presented by committee representative Wayne Henderson, are:
Remodel or expand the current jail facility in the 400 block of S. 1st St.;
Build a new facility; or
Identify an existing building and convert it to meet the county’s needs.
That committee, including members appointed ...