Collin County commissioners are set to move about $179.7 million in voter-approved bond money out of a holding account and into five justice-facility projects at their Monday, Nov. 9 meeting.
The money comes from Proposition A of the county's 2023 bond election, which covers the jail, courthouse and juvenile facilities. A project summary attached to the agenda item shows $182.9 million of the proposition's roughly $261.9 million had been parked in a discretionary contingency line. The budget adjustment on the consent agenda would draw $179,683,252 of that into specific projects.
Where the money would go
According to the county's journal entry for the adjustment:
- Courthouse expansion and remodel: $87,984,421, bringing that project to its full $145 million authorization. The summary shows about $57 million had been budgeted so far, most of it for construction and about $14.3 million for architecture.
- Juvenile detention expansion: $50,000,000. The summary lists that as the project's full authorization, with nothing budgeted or spent before now.
- Jail kitchen move: $23,400,000, on top of $1.6 million already budgeted, mostly for architecture. The authorized amount is $25 million.
- Courthouse parking garage: $17,183,987, which with the $2.73 million already budgeted reaches the garage's $19.9 million authorization.
- Jail expansion and remodel: $1,114,844.
The summary also lists a separate juvenile probation move in Plano, budgeted at about $2.07 million, which is not part of this adjustment.
What has been spent
As of the summary, the county had spent about $15 million from Proposition A and had another $25.9 million under contract. Most of that activity is on the courthouse and the existing jail: about $5.3 million spent on the courthouse expansion and $6 million on the jail project.
