The Douglas County commission meets in the historic courtroom on the second floor of the old county courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St.

After six town hall meetings on the topics, Douglas County commissioners will have their first work session Wednesday on proposals to expand the Douglas County Jail, build a mental health crisis intervention center and create a mental-health court.

The work session will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the commission meeting room in the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Unlike the six previous town hall meetings on the three issues since August 2014, commissioners will not solicit public comment at the work session. Instead, commissioners are expected to discuss the topics among themselves and with representatives from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Douglas County District Court, Bert Nash Community Mental Health, county staff and others who have worked with the county on the issues.

Commissioner Nancy Thellman, who first suggested the work session at the County Commission’s Feb. 10 meeting, said the discussion was “long overdue.” As a work session, commissioners will not make any decisions Wednesday, she said.

“I think it’s our opportunity to ask key partners questions and get clarification on areas where there is confusion or misinformation out there,” Thellman said. “It’s also our first chance to talk to each other. Finally after a year-and-a-half of town hall meetings and receiving a big pile of documents, it’s our chance to check in with each other to talk about what we’ve learned and get a sense of what we are thinking about the projects and proposals.”

County commissioners have yet to approve funding or funding mechanisms for any of the three proposals. At a town hall meeting last month at which early plans for an estimated $30 million, 120-bed jail expansion were laid out, commissioners said they viewed the jail expansion and crisis center as county responsibilities that needed to be addressed.

In December, commissioners agreed to a memorandum of understanding with Bert Nash, which would have the county build the crisis center on land the mental health agency owns.

The weekly County Commission meeting will follow the work session at 4 p.m. On the agenda will be a request that commissioners approve guaranteed maximum costs for Phase 2 and 3 of the fairgrounds improvement project.

The request pegs the maximum cost for Phase 2, which is a new 50,000-square-foot pavilion, at $2.73 million. A maximum cost of $1.75 million for the Phase 3 renovation of the derby arena and its restrooms is projected.

In December, commissioners approved a maximum price of $2.35 million for the project’s first phase. That work involved razing Buildings 1 and 2 in the southwest portion of the fairgrounds and their replacement with the new meeting hall. The phase also includes some grading and utilities and parking lot improvements.

The commission action Wednesday would approve total authorization of $7.94 million for the fairgrounds’ improvements.

The County Commission meets at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Douglas County Courthouse. The full agenda can be found online at http://douglascountyks.org/services/government/public-meetings.