Facilities director outlines operations, ongoing jail and courthouse upgrades

Bill Treupen, facilities director for Cumberland County, gave a monthly informational presentation Tuesday outlining the scope and staffing of the county facilities operation and a schedule of ongoing upgrades.

Treupen told commissioners the department “is all encompassing,” overseeing maintenance, custodial, electrical and fleet services across county properties. “When you walk into a county building, you want to be … impressed,” he said, adding that the department maintains buildings, parking garages and a county fleet of roughly 150 assets.

The presentation gave commissioners details on staff counts and recent work. Treupen said the maintenance division has 11 full‑time staff, custodial services 8 full‑time custodians, and an electrical division with three master electricians. He said the county garage is staffed by one full‑time fleet technician with one vacancy and that technician is responsible for about 150 assets. “We currently have 1 full time fleet with 1 vacancy and they’re basically responsible for 150 assets,” Treupen said.

Treupen reviewed capital and upgrade projects underway or planned. He said the jail medical expansion was roughly two‑thirds complete when he prepared slides and projected completion “end of April,” while acknowledging weather and construction delays. The jail is also receiving a door‑control infrastructure upgrade and the county recently replaced the roof at the Law Enforcement Center, he said. At the courthouse, Treupen said an air‑handler replacement and controls update has been kicked off and that parking‑garage Phase 1 was completed in October; courtroom upgrades are continuing in coordination with state partners.

He described other facilities the department manages: a 14‑acre jail and sheriff’s complex with about 163,000 square feet; a courthouse campus of roughly 228,000 square feet shared with state court functions; a 24/7 emergency management and dispatch center; and a new Northport building of about 33,000 square feet where the county’s lease limits exterior responsibilities to the association fee. He noted the department also assists external venues such as the Cross Insurance Arena on occasion.

Commissioners asked about vehicle maintenance capacity, and Treupen confirmed the county uses Excel‑based tracking now and is seeking to procure a computerized maintenance management system to improve asset tracking. “What we currently use isn’t really … capable of tracking what we need to track,” he said, noting a procurement item on the meeting agenda would address that.

Treasury and procurement items related to facilities — including a facilities condition assessment and a computer maintenance management system — were later considered and approved by the commissioners in separate votes during the meeting.

Treupen closed by thanking the commissioners and answered a handful of follow‑up questions on staffing and scheduling.

The presentation was informational; no separate formal policy was approved at the time Treupen spoke.