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Iroquois County staff report upcoming inspections, ADA concerns; committee recesses for site visit
Summary
At its June 30 meeting, the Iroquois County Management Services Committee heard a facilities report from staff about boilers, fire alarms, generators, parking-lot repairs and noncompliant drinking fountains, and unanimously recessed to inspect a proposed office build-out.
The Iroquois County Management Services Committee on Monday, June 30 recessed to inspect a proposed office build-out after staff summarized planned building inspections, maintenance work and accessibility issues.
Staff member Chris Drake told the committee the county will schedule boiler inspections next month, has a fire-alarm recertification and biannual generator service planned, and expects short-term parking-lot crack sealing and hallway floor refinishing over the Fourth of July weekend. Drake also raised concerns that several drinking fountains in county buildings are not ADA compliant and that phased replacement may be preferable to a single capital purchase.
The report detailed near-term safety and maintenance steps. Drake said one insurance-required boiler inspection is scheduled for the coming week and that a vendor named Getz will recertify fire alarm systems for the county building, the jail and 911. He said Metro Power typically services the county generators twice a year. Drake also reported routine HVAC troubleshooting and coil cleaning at the courthouse and jail, and repairs to a blocked urinal in the jail.
Drake described a plan to have cracks in the county parking lot filled and said the vendor expected to allow vehicles on the patched areas after about 15 minutes. He told the committee the hallways in the county building will be stripped and refinished during the holiday weekend and said offices were notified to move items out of corridors while the work is done.
On accessibility, Drake said several water fountains in county buildings are not ADA compliant and that replacement units with bottle-refill and filtration features were priced at about $1,400 for higher-end models. He said one main-level drinking fountain at the courthouse has been shut off for roughly two years because of a leaking copper coil, leaving only a single functioning fountain in the courthouse. Drake told the committee he would prefer to replace one fountain per facility per year to spread cost rather than fund all replacements at once, and he summarized that the replacements were “not necessarily enough to warrant as a capital improvement project.”
Committee members and staff also discussed space currently used for storage and a possible build-out to house representatives’ offices. Drake gave a rough contractor estimate of about $60,000 to convert the back gallery space into three offices and provided a simple payback sketch that he described in round numbers as about 6.6 years under certain revenue assumptions. After that discussion, a committee member moved and the committee voted in favor of recessing to take a brief site visit to the space to assess scope and condition.
The committee took no further formal action at the meeting beyond approving the agenda earlier and recessing for the site inspection. Staff said they will schedule and proceed with the listed inspections and routine maintenance and will report back with any formal capital requests or budget implications if they move forward with phased accessibility work or the office build-out.
