CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) The Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail board voted Thursday to go forward with participating in a bond sale to finance proposed renovations to the 50-year-old facility, giving the go-ahead on a scaled-down version of the project, revisions necessary after all the bids for the work came in over the targeted $49-million budget.
“The board certainly understands that this work needs to be done,” ACRJ superintendent Martin Kumer told Cville Right Now on Thursday. “It’s all of our responsibility to make sure this facility is safe, humane, and up to code where it’s possible and feasible. They understand that. They’ve been on tours. They’ve seen what it needs. Putting it off any longer is not going to do anybody any good. It’s just going to get more expensive.”
The project still needs approval from the Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle and Nelson County boards of supervisors, the three jurisdictions that use the jail…