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The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office expects to spend $1 million in the coming months to finish a dispatch center at its empty training center in north Tulsa.

Construction on the building stopped in February after an estimated $2.4 million had been spent on it — almost twice what it had been expected to cost to complete. The facility is essentially an empty shell.

On Monday, county commissioners OK’d an engineering contract and authorized a request for proposals to build some of the interior into a dispatch center. Officials said a dedicated E911 account and savings from canceling a contract with the city of Tulsa for call center space should cover the cost of construction.

According to the county purchasing office, about $850,000 is budgeted for the actual call center, with the remainder going for paving, drainage improvements and other outside work.

The facility was intended to become a regional training and dispatch center that would generate revenue for the Sheriff’s Office, but ultimately it became one of the albatrosses hung around long-time sheriff Stanley Glanz’s neck. The center was even to be named for Glanz, but county officials decided otherwise last month.