Collin County commissioners are set to move $179.7 million in 2023 bond money out of a holding account Monday and into the courthouse, jail and juvenile detention projects it was meant to pay for.
The item, on the consent agenda for the Commissioners Court's 1:30 p.m. meeting on Nov. 9, shifts the money from the bond's Proposition A contingency line into five project budgets. According to the budget office's journal entry, the split is:
- $87,984,421 for the courthouse expansion and remodel
- $50,000,000 for the juvenile detention expansion
- $23,400,000 for moving the jail kitchen
- $17,183,987 for the courthouse parking garage
- $1,114,844 for the jail expansion and remodel
The budget office describes the request as allocating the money "into the correct projects" so it can be spent. It does not raise the bond's size or add projects.
Each transfer brings a project's working budget up to the amount authorized for it in the county's Proposition A summary: $145 million for the courthouse, $50 million for the juvenile center, $25 million for the kitchen move, about $19.9 million for the garage and about $16.7 million for the jail work.
Where the projects stand
The summary attached to the item shows most of the work is still early. About $15 million of the Proposition A fund had been spent and another $25.9 million committed under contracts. The courthouse project had about $5.3 million spent, much of it on architecture, and $15.3 million encumbered.
The juvenile detention expansion had no spending recorded. The jail expansion had $6 million spent and $8.6 million committed.
Before Monday's move, about $182.9 million sat in the contingency account. The transfer would leave roughly $3.2 million there, matching the amount the summary lists as authorized for discretionary contingency.
