Seven million dollars is how much over budget the voter-approved project to expand and renovate the Hays County’s public safety facilities, including its jail, is.

As a result of the overrun, Hays County Commissioners took no action Tuesday on accepting or declining the proposed guaranteed maximum price (GMP) on its list of projects under Proposition 1 of the 2016 bond.

Mike Kaiman, vice president of Turner Construction, the company which Hays County hired to compile a GMP, presented county...