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County officials discuss jail contractor fixes, precast panel timeline
Summary
Edgar County officials said contractor CORE and subcontractors will restart work on the county jail this week or next while negotiating repairs to interior plumbing and other components; county staff said replacements are costly and testing may reduce needed fixes.
Edgar County board members discussed plans to restart work at the county jail and outstanding repairs during the board’s regular meeting.
County board speaker Josh (Speaker, Edgar County official) said a CORE kickoff meeting for the jail was scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with CORE’s subcontractors and others on site “to basically go over what we’re gonna do, how we’re gonna do it, monitoring, that kind of stuff” so the county “don’t run into the same problems we had this time.” Josh said contractors hope to start as early as this week, and if not…
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