BENTON COUNTY, Ark.(KNWA/KFTA)– Benton County is seeking to make enhancements to the Benton County jail’s air high quality.
The Benton County Finance Committee held a gathering Tuesday in search of methods to distribute American Rescue funds.
One possibility was to take a position more cash into enhancing the Benton County Jail’s heating and air con methods.
“A part of the I believe want to deal with a few of that is the truth that numerous the elements have been 15, 20, and 25 years outdated,” Bo Reynolds mentioned.
Bo Reynolds is with the corporate Trane Applied sciences which works on heating and air con they usually carried out a research on the jail’s air high quality.
“There was pockets of the jail together with pods that actually weren’t getting the best air flow and having cold and hot calls and extra importantly after we put in some displays in there had elevated CO2 ranges past what Ashtray recommends,” Reynolds mentioned.
Reynolds additionally identified a number of points with the boilers, warmth change failures, outdated variable air quantity containers, and exhaust followers that aren’t correctly working.
“You’ve received 12 essential exhaust followers within the pods which are tied to life security system and smoke management in addition to tear gasoline we’re not assured these are working correctly,” Reynolds mentioned.
One Benton County magistrate requested throughout final Tuesday’s assembly why these points weren’t offered sooner.
“Why is that this coming again up? Was this not within the estimate and was it not within the preliminary evaluation?” –Voice of magistrate.
“We didn’t convey the significance after which we didn’t notice the complexity of a few of this till we have been in a position to actually dig into that so it was I believe it was a few completely different points there,” Reynolds mentioned.
Reynolds says all collectively fixing these points inside the Benton County Jail would roughly value $885,000, with the county solely having 2 million {dollars} remaining in ARPA funds.
The committee voted to approve these enhancements with a unanimous vote at its Tuesday assembly.
The complete Benton County Qurorum Courtroom must give closing approval for utilizing the funds for enhancing the jail’s air con and heating.