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County reports ARPA-funded renovations moving forward; owner's rep cites elevator, jail and behavioral-health milestones
Summary
Owner's representative briefed the Infrastructure and PBA advisory committees that multiple ARPA-funded renovation projects are on schedule, with specific contractual dates for elevator and jail work, ongoing asbestos abatement, and a growing list of change orders being processed.
The Infrastructure Committee and the PBA Advisory Committee received progress reports on American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-funded renovation projects, including courthouse elevator replacements, a behavioral-health facility slab, and finishing work on the existing jail. Owner's representative Bill gave the updates and said contractors are forecasting completion before contractual deadlines.
Why it matters: the projects affect courthouse operations, jail capacity and public-safety facilities and involve change orders and contingency spending that the committees said they will monitor.
Bill, the owner's representative, told the committees the contractual completion date for the elevator work is Dec. 1 and that "a lot of the elevators will be done prior to that." He said the project team is replacing elevator controls and will bring elevators back in service one bank at a time, and that the service elevator has been unavailable at times during…
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