OTTAWA — The Franklin County Commission is expected to give the go-ahead Wednesday to Treanor Architects to do the final design on a proposed juvenile detention center at Second and Beech. Architect Dan Rowe said that the new facility, which would be built southwest of the Neosho County Community College building, would be secure, simple and and efficient. The center, which will have a pie-shaped side, is being designed for housing 14 juveniles safely and within state and federal guidelines with a minimum of staff, while offering a day school for other students ordered to report each day to the facility, he said. Once the county buys the college campus next year, when the college moves to its new campus in eastern Ottawa, the juvenile facility would be built. The proposal would include using part of the existing NCCC building for administrative and office spaces and would be remodelled to hold “children in need of care,” he said. Rowe said the plans should be done by the end of the year.
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 3 p.m.
