PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners are mulling a one-year contract extension with a Colorado company to provide health care services to jail inmates.
The $281,393 proposed contract with Correctional Healthcare Companies Inc. is $6,541 more than last year’s agreement. The 2.38 percent increase is based on the consumer price index for health care, county officials said.
No commissioner objected to the amended contract when it was discussed Monday. The board will vote on the agreement next Tuesday.
Clallam County parted ways with Olympic Medical Center for inmate medical care in 2010, citing costs.
Correctional Healthcare has provided nursing services for the 120-bed Clallam County jail in each of the past six years.
The cost of the first annual contract was $198,567.
Land purchase
In other discussion from the Monday work session, commissioners indicated support for a proposed half-acre land purchase from A2Z Enterprises for improvements to Lower Elwha Road.
A2Z Enterprises, which operates the Extreme Sports Park sprint boat track in west Port Angeles, owns the land east of Lower Elwha Road and north of Edgewood Drive.
The $10,454 agreement will be considered next Tuesday.
“This is one of our major players on that [east] side,” County Engineer Ross Tyler told commissioners.
“It would be nice to get this taken care of.”
Clallam County plans to widen Lower Elwha Road between Edgewood Drive and Kacee Way this summer.
The 0.8-mile section will be repaved and widened from 22 feet to 34 feet, making room for 6-foot shoulders on both sides, officials have said.
Commissioners next Tuesday also will consider three easement purchases for the Carlsborg sewer project.
Bids for the estimated $12.1 million construction project will be opened in a public meeting today.
“Based on calls I’m receiving, there’s a lot of work going in to preparing bids,” Public Works Administrative Director Bob Martin told commissioners.
“I’m optimistic that we’ll get a good bid response.”
The business meeting will begin at 10 a.m. in Room 160 at the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St.
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