‘A rough one’ Tasting 1839 FC falls 6-0 to Chattanooga, SPORTS PAGE B1 memories 4 dead, 29 missing The food of Reims and Lille FOOD, PAGE C1 Boat mishap off Ventura County NEWS, PAGE A3 SUNNY AND WARM 88 • 56 FORECAST, B4 | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 | napavalleyregister.com | $1 COST OF LIVING CRIMINAL JUSTICE Better outlook for jail funding County may not have to borrow to pay for it BARRY EBERLING
[email protected] Napa County’s fi nancing plan for a proposed $128 million, 304-bed replacement jail along Highway 221 near Syar quarry no longer requires a multi-mil- lion-dollar loan. The county in 2017 contem- TIM CARL PHOTOGRAPHY plated taking out a $50 million The Napa Valley can seem an idyllic place to live, but it comes with high housing costs that squeeze household budgets, forcing many to do loan as part of a patchwork of without or move out of county. This drone phone shows housing in northeast Napa that abuts vineyards. funding sources. This potential loan amount shrank to $20 mil- lion in 2018 and $10 million in April. Now it’s disappeared. The Board of Supervisors last week reviewed the progress of Costly Napa housing can the jail replacement project. That included reviewing potential fi - nancing sources. “We’re in a privileged posi- tion to be able to get to this point be bad for your health without mortgaging the future,” Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza said. Supervisor Brad Wagenknecht Financial squeeze agreed. “That was the part that was adds stress to families scary to me and scary to other folks, because it had inter- forced to prioritize est, (which is) more than just a lost-opportunity cost,” Wagen- essentials kencht said.