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Commissioners debate facilities master plan and approve $482,200 chiller replacement at county courthouse
Summary
Board members discussed a facilities master plan that identifies roughly tens of millions in deferred maintenance across county buildings, debated campus consolidation versus multiple‑campus options, and voted to award a $482,200 contract to replace a failing courthouse chiller to avoid critical failure.
Commissioners spent a lengthy portion of the meeting reviewing the county facilities master plan, its deferred‑maintenance estimates and near‑term capital needs, and then approved a $482,200 contract to replace the courthouse chiller after staff warned of system failure and environmental discharge to the river.
Staff said the facilities master plan is nearly 500 pages and identified multiple buildings that require priority attention: the jail (which houses the campus boiler), the historic courthouse and the law‑enforcement center. Administration and facilities staff stressed the interdependencies between those buildings: the jail heating/mechanical systems also support other campus structures and any plan to…
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