ADELANTO – The tab for the expansion of the High Desert Detention Center here has come in at $25.4 million more than the amount San Bernardino County officials projected in late 2010.
When it awarded a construction contract to Washington-based Lydig Construction Inc. in December 2010, the county projected a total cost of $120 million. With construction now complete and a grand opening scheduled for Thursday, the final cost for the project has come in at $145.4 million, which includes $22.1 million in additional costs including design, administration, inspection, utilities and permits.
That is more than what the county initially budgeted for the project in 2008 — $144 million — when it applied for, and subsequently received, $100 million in state funding for the project.
Full story by Joe Nelson at redlandsdailyfacts.com.
