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Finance Committee is told of available sites for a justice center.
Members of the Cocke County Finance Committee met in workshop Tuesday evening because of a lack of a quorum. The members spent time talking about jail issues and plans to construct a new jail or justice center. Commissioner Jimmy Lindsey said he was approached by retired Circuit Court Judge Ken Porter who owns a 25 acre parcel near the Cocke County fairgrounds. Porter said he would sell the site to the county for the appraised value. State law requires that a justice center be located in the city, and there are questions as to whether the sit is in the city limits of Newport. Commissioners were told if the property is not in the city, it could be annexed. The owner of the former Woodzo Drive-In theater site on West Highway 25/70, also has offered to sell that property to the county. Mayor Crystal Ottinger reported that a law change, pending in Nashville, would have the state pay the county a per diem for housing state inmates, after conviction. Currently the state begins paying for housing only after the inmate has been sentenced, sometimes months after the conviction is entered. She also reminded the committee that the state is considering a recommendation by Governor Bill Haslam, that would increase the daily per diem rate.
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