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Will County facilities staff review 2024 projects, roll out door-numbering and new work-order system

2097057 · January 8, 2025
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Will County facilities staff reported on completed building projects, upgrades and safety initiatives including a new computerized maintenance management system, door-numbering for emergency response and a county resolution authorizing a facilities master-planning RFP that is now being implemented.

Ken Rogalski, assistant facilities director for Will County, told the Capital Improvements and IT Committee that facilities work completed in 2024 included exterior and interior finishes at the old courthouse, a Children’s Advocacy Center build-out, roofing, tuckpointing and mechanical upgrades across county sites.

“The old courthouse . . . is complete now. Everything looks great,” Rogalski said, describing hydroseeding and other exterior work. He said the former preschool now used by the Children’s Advocacy Center was finished in May and that a new roof membrane installed on another county building is a 30-year product completed in the second week of December.

The report covered multiple completed projects: replacement of oversized boilers with high-efficiency hot-water heaters at Sunnyvale Nursing Home (reported to produce a 30–42 percent reduction in natural gas costs), a fire-pump replacement in a detention facility fire pump room, elevator refreshes in the court annex, completion of new beds for the nursing home, and finish work at a…

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