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Council approves emergency asbestos abatement, jail design contract and appropriations
Summary
Summit County Council suspended rules and adopted emergency resolutions to award asbestos abatement work to Cardinal Environmental (not to exceed $284,640.50), approve Welty Building Corp for design work on the jail project (not to exceed $263,700) and appropriate $929,000 in proceeds from the sale of 1 Cascade Plaza for distribution to taxing authorities.
Summit County Council voted to approve a series of emergency items including an asbestos-abatement contract for the Ohio Building, a design-phase contract for the Summit County Jail intake and Sally Port expansion, and appropriation adjustments tied to property-sale proceeds.
Joe Eckenrode of the executive’s physical plants department told the council asbestos had been found in mastic, ceiling materials and old floor tile during the Ohio Building renovation and recommended awarding an emergency construction contract to…
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