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County staff to seek larger replacement or relocation for undersized jail cooling unit

2476833 · February 4, 2025
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Summary

Maintenance and commissioners discussed options — cleaning, replacing, or relocating a temporary 25-ton cooling unit serving the county jail — and asked staff to request price estimates for a 30-ton unit and for structural work to elevate it.

County maintenance staff and commissioners discussed persistent overheating problems in the Okanogan County Jail and agreed to investigate buying a larger unit or relocating the temporary cooling unit out of a heat-trapping pit.

"That unit so it's what I'd like to what I'd like to investigate with these folks is is that a 20 ton is that a 20 ton or a 25 ton unit? 25 ton," said a commissioner during discussion about…

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