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Cochise County facilities director outlines aging infrastructure, seeks energy-audit options to cut costs
Summary
Facilities Director Daryl Crowley told the Board of Supervisors the county is managing more than 1,200 work orders this year, faces widespread HVAC and building maintenance needs, and is pursuing energy audits and grant funding to reduce long-term costs.
Daryl Crowley, Cochise County director of facilities, told the Board of Supervisors during a work session that the county’s facilities operation is handling a heavy workload and facing aging infrastructure that will require large, multi-year investments.
Crowley said the county has logged about 1,200 work orders in the nine months covered by the current operating year and that “only a 30 of them are still open,” a figure he offered to show the department’s turnaround on routine requests. He described facilities’ scope as broad, covering building maintenance, parking lots, backup power systems and transfer stations.
The county’s HVAC inventory is a central concern. Crowley said an earlier assessment showed “within the next 5 years, 80 to 85% of all of our HVAC units were past due, being replaced.” He told supervisors that individual HVAC replacements typically cost in the “quarter to a half a million…
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