Mar 16, 2023
T-R PHOTO BY NICK BAUR — The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office and Jail is located at 2369 Jessup Ave. Upgrades to the facility are expected in the future after the Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday to accept a proposal for schematic design, design development, and cost estimate for a renovation project.
At Wednesday’s regular meeting of the Marshall County Board of Supervisors, the board voted unanimously to approve a proposal by OPN Architects with a lump sum fee of $163,495 for the schematic design, design development, and cost estimate for the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office and Jail renovation project.
The proposal includes basic services for completing the schematic design and half of the Design Development Phase alongside a cost estimate. It also includes consultant work for mechanical, electrical, plumbing and structural engineering with a cost estimation. The project will draw from designated American Rescue Plan Act funds for the building.
Lucas Baedke, Building and Grounds Director, came before the board to talk through the proposal and the upcoming process involved.
“We have a larger project that we’re looking at that we’re going to have to phase in, we don’t have all the money to do it right now,” said Baedke. “The plan is to take the entire project to a design development phase, and then do another cost estimate to see what portions of it are going to cost what kind of money and then we can really dial in and say, ‘Alright, we’re going to spend our money on x, y, z, [and] call that phase one and phase two.’”
Baedke added that, “this takes us a lot of the way through at least the architectural side,” but the proposal “isn’t finalizing everything.”
“This will be the point where we can all sit together and say, ‘Alright, we want it to look like this. Let’s go in this direction,’” he said.
The proposal states the documents will take approximately nine weeks to prepare, estimate, and finalize for eventual review.
Additionally during the meeting, the board unanimously approved the addition of two new death investigators for the Marshall County Medical Examiner’s Office. Currently Mark Bethel, Cortney Watson, and DalLynn Hotchkiss McEltree serve as death investigators with Medical Examiner David Bethel.
In a letter to the board, David Bethel requested adding Jason Bina and Grace Bethel to the medical examiners staff and stated, “My goal is to expand cross coverage, allowing the Marshall County death investigator [DI] to serve as Tama County death investigator if resident DI is not available, likewise a Tama County death investigator may serve in Marshall County if needed.”
The board also approved the appointment of Cortney Watson to serve as death investigator for Tama County, in addition to her duties in Marshall County.
“They’re spreading the load. It has no effect on budget, and it will just make more people available to take care of situations they may get into,” said Supervisor Steve Salasek.
In other business, the board:
• Appointed Randy Kessler as Veterans Affairs Commissioner to fill the unexpired term of Tommy Lamb through 2024.
• Approved the final system acceptance of Marshall County’s P25 radio system expansion and DiCal paging;
• Adopted a resolution amending assessed/taxable values of utility companies, specifically to reflect the Department of Revenue rollback correction to the residential rollback. This correction affected the Railroad Taxable Value, which is subject to the 2-Tier Assessment per SF181. The first $150,000 of value is subject to the residential rollback, which changed from 56.4919 percent to 54.6501 percent. The remainder is subject to the 90 percent rollback.
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Contact Nick Baur at 641-753-6611 or nbaur@timesrepublican.com.
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