Price Tag For Upgraded Jail: $56.7M

Item: New jail price: $56.7 million: County commissioners vote on ballot language for expansion proposal/Alecia Warren, Coeur d’Alene Press

More Info: Jail improvements that would impact Kootenai County inmates for years to come are on taxpayers’ plates again — and the commissioners are doing their utmost to accommodate voters’ frugal palates. The officials will vote this afternoon on ballot language for funding the newest jail expansion proposal, with nearly $90 million trimmed from last year’s price tag. … Even with cheaper building methods and fewer proposed facilities, the new $56.69 million proposal is still higher than the commissioners had counted on, Tondee admitted.

Question: Would you vote for a half-cent sales tax increase to expand the jail and to cut property taxes?