Idaho should have regional facilities for autopsies. One for each of the H & W districts.

$44-Million for this new pod. That’s 44-million better spent on schools, low-income housing, job assistance, etc.

If there is an urge to lock someone up let’s start with the politicos and the bankers and lawyers who thought of this scheme.

BTW, What inspection did you fail Ada Sheriff? Why did you fail this inspection, poor training, poor budgeting, maybe poor administration that includes gross incompetence and dishonesty. Since you are always using the term failed inspection without providing specifics maybe your just trying to scare the taxpayer. Sadly you are not alone though Canyon County has the same problem with their jail.

Gather the data. Then, if we need to put more county prisoners in the pen, do it. It appears in the report that it should have been done. The strategy explained may be one of hoping criminality will reduce, but it will not.

Who are the prison directors, the jail directors, and who do they report to? Who are the accountants?

Who are the prisoners related to?

EDITOR NOTE–The sheriff runs the jail and the Idaho Dept. of Corrections is slow to pick up convicted felons which includes IDOC inmates who violate their parole and await return to the state pen.

“So maybe if we underpaid politicians and overpaid teachers, there would be smarter people in Idaho and less dumb laws and dumb inmates.”

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Other state supreme courts also say the COP is acceptable financing. NOBODY objects to a regular lease.

This creative financing (COP) is just leasing with a committed intermediary.

Perhaps the 2/3 requirement is the unnecessary piece.

Not taking on debt based on the idea of ‘not making future obligations’ is pretty weak compared to “delayed maintenance” and “lack of action” indeed creates a future obligation as well. 6 or a half-dozen?

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Municipalities are now considering bonds and COPs for financing police brutality settlements- now running at 10-40 million settlements– when insurance doesn’t cover it, how does a city pay for that? So who is really paying for frequent police negligence?

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A state-wide medical examiner falls in line with the idea of economy of scale, and efficiency.
It is also occurring with Idaho death sentence cases. Ada and the state providing counsel to outside counties without adequate resources.

The same can be applied to MANY govt actions. Why stop at the medical examiner?

Then apply that from states to the federal level. Where do we want the control?

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plus looking at the map, I thought it’s odd there is a railroad spur going right up to the coroner’s office- it’s a dead-end though.

The mega library the the City of Boise seeks to build had also sought to consider such “creative” or alternative methods of financing to work around the voters approval.