By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The painstaking process outlined by a consultant hired to help the Prison Relocation Authority and Development Committee decide if, when and how to relocate the state’s main prison facility drew quick reactions — one polite, the other heated — from two lawmakers Wednesday.
Brad Sassatelli, project director for MGT of America, told the board his firm would have a preliminary feasibility report ready at the end of January but projected that, if a decision is made to move the Utah State Prison, a contract would not be awarded until spring 2015.
“This is a very aggressive schedule we’ve laid out for the state to move forward with,” Sassatelli said.
But not according to Rep. Eric K. Hutchings, R-Kearns.
After listening to Sassatelli’s broad overview of process steps and timetables, Hutchings said he could have learned the same information by flipping through a copy of Architectural Digest.
“So far, I haven’t really learned anything today that you didn’t share when we sat down to hire you,” Hutchings said, adding: “April 2015 ain’t going to work.”
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