From a Perry County Facebook post
PERRYVILLE – Perry County and City of Perryville officials and others donned hard hats and picked up shovels Monday to break ground at the site of the planned Perry County Joint Justice Center.
Zoellner Construction Co., Inc. of Perryville and DILLE POLLARD Architecture were awarded the contract to build the new facility at an estimated cost of $26.5 million. Financing for the project has been provided by the The Bank of Missouri. The county has also been aided with help from financial consultant Piper Sandler and Navigate Building Solutions.
In April of 2021, voters approved a capital improvements sales tax of one-half of one percent for 20 years to pay for the construction of the Perry County Joint Justice Center. After 20 years the tax will continue at one-eighth of one percent (0.00125) to provide the money necessary to maintain the facility.
The roughly 60,000 square foot facility expected to be completed in mid-to-late-2024 will house the Perry County Sheriff’s Office and jail, the City of Perryville Police Department, state and municipal courts, Perry County Circuit Court Clerk’s office, city and county joint 911 dispatch center, Perry County Prosecuting Attorney’s office, Perry County Coroner’s office and local Emergency Management agencies. The facility will be located on a six-acre tract of land purchased in 2021 in the 400 block of W. St Joseph Street.
Monday’s event saw representatives from the City of Perryville Government, Perry County Sheriff’s Office, Perryville Police Department, Perry County Emergency Management Agency, Perry County Circuit Court, Perry County Prosecuting Attorney, City of Perryville Emergency Management, as well as many other state and federal officials or their staff members
Speakers included Perry County Clerk Jared Kutz, Perry County Presiding Commissioner Mike Sauer, Perryville City Administrator Brent Buerck, Zoellner Construction’s Matt Zoellner and City of Perryville Police Chief Direk Hunt, who serves as a deacon, delivered a prayer and offered a blessing over the site.