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Committee OKs forwarding $32,650 emergency jail battery purchase to Budget & Finance for reimbursement
Summary
The Coffee County Capital Outlay Committee voted Jan. 2 to send an emergency jail battery purchase to Budget & Finance for possible reimbursement from capital-project funds.
The Coffee County Capital Outlay Committee voted Jan. 2 to send a request to Budget & Finance seeking reimbursement for an emergency replacement of the jail's building-wide battery backup system.
Committee members were told the jail's lithium battery array, which contains dozens of cells that support the facility's electronics, had swollen and become inoperable, causing intermittent power failures that threatened systems inside the building. The county obtained work from Eaton to replace the system…
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