The price tag is the same, but small changes may be made to the proposed Kewaunee County Public Safety building once crews get to work. Representatives from Venture Architects and The Samuels Group provided an approximately nine-minute update on the project to the Kewaunee County Board during their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday night. One change that will be seen from the outside will be the building's exterior walls, thanks to a drop in costs in the pre-cast concrete panel market. Rising costs in other areas will cause the footprint of the building to shrink to help keep the project on track with its budget.

Currently, contractors have placed the construction costs of the new jail facility to be about three percent higher than the original budget. The final amount could be closer to the original if contractors overestimated certain areas' costs. The goals are to put the project out to bid by May in order to let the Kewaunee County Board decide on contractors during their June or July meetings.