Committee offers timeline for LePage prison bond
A legislative committee has, in a close vote, pushed back the timeline on Gov. Paul LePage's plan to issue a $100 million bond to fund prison construction at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham.
The Bangor Daily News reported that the 5-4 decision in the Legislature's Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee approved the bond plan but recommended it be delayed until July 1, 2015 to give the state's Department of Corrections time to conduct a feasability study for the project.
The committee's recommendation will now go to the Legislature's appropriations committee for consideration as part of the budget-writing process.
Corrections officials have told legislators that replacing all but three buildings on the 260-acre campus would save $8 million in staffing costs.
Committee members voting in the narrow majority to delay the bond proposal argued that those savings and other aspects of the plan should be studied first.
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