(PHOTO BY JACOB KESSLER / THE VILLAGE REPORTER)
CCNO … CCNO, pictured here, will be moving forward with a construction plan that will greatly benefit the jail as a whole.
By: Jacob Kessler
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
jacob@thevillagereporter.com
Board members for the Corrections Commission of Northwest Ohio met on Wednesday, July 16. The meeting began at 9:30 a.m. with members reviewing the agenda and moving to approve minutes from the previous session.
The board’s main focus centered on approving a bid for the long-anticipated C Unit renovation project. After receiving only one bid back in April, which came in too high, the board chose to restart the process.
That decision brought in four new submissions. The lowest, from The Delventhal Company, totaled 3.8 million dollars.
With that bid now approved, construction is set to begin no later than mid-September and is expected to last two hundred seventy calendar days.
Funding for the project includes a 4.6-million-dollar grant awarded through the state. With the new bid coming in well under that amount, remaining funds will be available to cover architectural fees, potential change orders, or other adjustments throughout construction. The board had previously committed to using up to one million dollars of its own funding if needed.
Plans for C Unit include the installation of toilets and sinks inside inmate cells, the removal of shared restrooms, the consolidation of two operations centers into one, and an increase in bed capacity from forty to sixty-one.
Moving on, board members approved the 2026 bed allocations for each member county. Williams County will remain at 55 beds, Henry County at 37, Defiance County at 60, Fulton County at 47, and Lucas County at 170.
While Fulton and Lucas Counties are operating below their original chartered numbers, the board approved the lower totals.
The meeting continued with the approval of a new monitoring process for Toledo Municipal Court inmates who require hospitalization.
Under the program, inmates will be tracked using GPS devices. Area hospitals will be required to notify CCNO when an inmate is discharged, and transport will be handled directly by facility staff. The process mirrors current procedures already in place for other counties.
An update was then given on a $150,000 grant through the Four County ADAMhs Board. These funds support in-house programming by social workers, but delays in processing mean the money may not be available until September, if at all.
Board members also learned that a planned federal rule change related to inmate phone call pricing has been postponed.
A new timeline moves the changes back to 2027, allowing CCNO to maintain its current contract without immediate adjustments.
With no additional action items on the calendar, the board agreed to cancel its August meeting. The Financial Overview Committee will meet on October 15, and the next regular meeting of the full board is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22.