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The county supervisors have authorized Sheriff Henry Woodward to contract for completion of work at the jail left undone when Baughn Construction Company rejected the last contract change order. In addition, they gave Woodward the okay to arrange for food service at the facility.
Their action, taken at last Wednesday’s board meeting, removes two of the obstacles blocking use of the remodeled lock-up. But ap-^ proval from the State Compensation Board and Department of Corrections for staff must still be obtained before Rappahannock - prisoners can be incarcerated in Rappahannock.
Of the unfinished items on the last contract change order. Woodward told the board he wanted (1) a partition in the dispatch center (2) shelves in Closets and (3) a basketball backboard and hoop for the prisoners’ exercise yard. “Wien the prisoners are out in the yard, it will give them something to do to occupy their time,” he explained.
Woodward noted that Department of Corrections officials require an alarm to signal when the basement door of the jail building is open. “The cheapest route to ' go is a light. 'If we install f p hui—r ~ itr ’ll hrtira to gat *' * transformer *to drop the voltage down.” The light will be mounted at the dispatcher’s desk where someone will be on duty at all times. (The basement is completely sealed off from the jail and houses only the
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