00;00;00;11 - 00;00;04;11 Shannon Henry I'll make a motion. We adopt ordinance 2018 dash 020. 00;00;04;13 - 00;00;05;13 Sherry Riggin Second. 00;00;05;16 - 00;00;24;29 Stephanie Wiechmann With no amendments and no discussion, the county's three commissioners unanimously approved a plan to turn the former Wilson Middle School building on Tillotson Avenue and 26th Street into a justice center and 500 bed jail. The plan would more than quadruple the beds available in the overcrowded current jail, which commissioners have said is necessary to avoid more lawsuits on jail conditions. 00;00;25;05 - 00;00;42;28 Stephanie Wiechmann Residents speaking in opposition at a community organized forum earlier this month say spending money on programs for drug offenders or mentally ill inmates would do more good. Commissioner Sherry Riggin was asked to speak at the forum after Monday's vote. She says the new jail will be set up dormitory style, which she says will be better for inmate health. 00;00;43;01 - 00;00;59;14 Sherry Riggin Or we can classify them like we can't put somebody in for murder with someone that's in for an - I don't know. Yes we can. And then sometimes they're just, you know, a little felon. 00;00;59;16 - 00;01;09;29 Stephanie Wiechmann The plan would also move the county court system from downtown Muncie, which residents say will hurt local businesses. Riggin says the solution is to fill the existing courts building with new employees. 00;01;10;01 - 00;01;20;05 Sherry Riggin We're trying to talk to the Board of Health to come in over there. You kind of let them maybe be in charge. Or. Maybe on second floor, we could have a halfway house. 00;01;20;07 - 00;01;39;05 Stephanie Wiechmann The commissioners approval is the first step to building a new jail. Now, funding needs to be approved by the Delaware County Council. The cost to renovate Wilson Middle School is $ 45 million. Then there's leasing the building from the corporation that's doing those renovations. That's estimated to cost the county $ 92 million in added tax funds over the next 25 years. 00;01;39;08 - 00;01;46;04 Stephanie Wiechmann None of that funding would go towards renovating the existing jail once it was empty. In Muncie, Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.