ORLEANS COUNTY: One jail site is off list

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April 3, 2008

By Nicole Coleman/colemann@gnnewspaper.com The Journal-Register Thu Apr 03, 2008, 01:09 PM EDT

One down. Eighteen to go.

The Jail Construction Advisory Committee has decided to remove one of the top five contenders for a new Orleans County Jail site, less than a week after they submitted it for review by the state Department of Corrections.

The 21-acre property at 3305 Main St. in Albion, also Oak Orchard Road, was submitted to the county as a possible site by Joseph E. Navarra when the project went out to bid at the end of 2007. Actually, the parcel is only partially owned by Navarra, said Legislator Lynne Johnson, chair of the Public Safety Committee.

The remainder is owned by Faith Alliance Church, under the direction of the Rev. Greg Marston. He has made it clear that he is not interested in selling, said Chief Administrative Officer Chuck Nesbitt.

Nineteen sites being considered for the project were released at last Friday’s jail advisory committee meeting. Five were chosen by the engineering and architecture firm Labella Associates as the best options and were submitted to the Department of Corrections for approval.

“The information that was submitted to us on one of the properties was inaccurate, so we immediately removed it from the choices,” Johnson said.

The Department of Corrections is expected to notify the county which of the four sites meets its approval by April 15. Cost of the properties will dictate what the jail committee decides to do from there, Johnson said.

If any of the four sites prove out of the county’s range financially, the committee will be able to fall back on the 14 other options, she said.

In the mean time, she encourages the public to sit in on the jail committee meetings. The next regularly scheduled meeting will take place at 10 a.m. April 25 in the Legislature Chambers on Courthouse Square.

“I do not want to dump a state-mandated jail on this county without every opportunity being well-researched,” Johnson said. “Chairman (Henry) Smith has made it a high priority to involve the community in everything we do, so I encourage people to take part. This is a huge project facing the county.”

Nesbitt said he wrote a letter to Marston on Wednesday morning apologizing for the confusion. Labella wrote a letter to the Department of Corrections officially eliminating the 3305 Main St. property from consideration.

The additional four sites are:

• A 13-acre parcel on State School Road owned by Richard DeCarlo. Located .82 miles from Orleans County Court.

• A 38.6-acre parcel on Butts Road at Route 31, owned by the County of Orleans Industrial Development Agency. Located 1.8 miles from Orleans County Court.

• A 94.8-acre parcel on Brown Road, south of Bacon Road, owned by Lynn-Ette & Sons, Inc. Located 1.5 miles from Orleans County Court from Brown Road and .8 miles from Oak Orchard Road.

• A 115.25-acre parcel behind the County Office Buildings and the Villages of Orleans nursing home. Located 1.6 miles from Orleans County Court.

Contact reporter Nicole Colemanat 798-1400, ext. 2227.

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