Williston Pays Off Its "New" Jail Eighteen (18) Years Early -- October 17, 2014

The Bismarck Tribune is reporting: Williston pays off "new" jail in six (6) year, eighteen years ahead of schedule. Williston is now looking at doubling the size of the "new" jail. From the link:

The county sold $14.5 million in bonds for the jail that was built in 2008, with a payoff date in 2032.

The half-percent sales tax enacted to fund the facility raised the entire amount in five years, and the county plans to pay off the bond on Nov. 1.

Commissioner Dan Kalil said the county could have continued the special tax, but that it notified the state earlier this month that it would not do so.

"We told the public it was for the jail and when we had the money it would end," he said. "It's done."

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