PARIS — Oxford County Jail renovations are on track for completion by Dec. 15, according to Tony Carter, supervisor of the Oxford County Regional Airport in Oxford and the unorganized territories.

“In all likelihood, we’re going to be on schedule,” he said during a workshop of the Oxford County Commission Nov. 7.

Regional Electric is working to install the security system while Seacoast Security is installing cameras. Most of the mattresses will be changed out and four 1,000-gallon liquid propane tanks have been installed to replace boilers at the property on Western Avenue in Paris. The heat pumps in the building are running, Carter said.

The county will use its remaining $420,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to cover parts of the jail renovation project and radio tower upgrades for the Regional Communications Center dispatch.

“I feel it will cover it,” Carter said of the remaining funds.

The jail has been only used as a holding cell since March, when it was closed for HVAC upgrades.

Maj. Dana Dillingham, jail administrator, noted that the jail currently has a population of 89, spread across the state in jails in Piscataquis, Somerset, Washington, York, and Cumberland counties.

The jail has stopped sending inmates to York County Jail because the jail is full and Cumberland County Jail is also filling up, Dillingham said.

“The predicament will be on a Saturday morning at 2 a.m. when we call and say we’re bringing one down to Cumberland, and they say ‘don’t bother, because we don’t have any space,’” he said.

The Oxford County Commission will next meet at 9 a.m. and hold a separate budget workshop at 6 p.m. Nov. 19.