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experience a fire within the facility. I am not sure the <br />sprinkler system would function until the fire department <br />arrived and made a manual hook-up. The doors and indicator <br />lights do not work properly from their control point which <br />does not allow the staff to know what position that door is <br />in. The staff communication systems do not function properly <br />which does not allow the control room operator to know from <br />where a call is originating if an officer were in trouble and <br />needed help. <br />It is my recommendation that some immediate action needs to <br />be taken that will provide jail staff with a system that will <br />function as originally intended. <br />Director Dean informed the Board that Mr. Neil Schopke is <br />here as well as a representative from the architects, W. R. <br />Frizzell. Staff recommendation is still the same. There does <br />not seem to be an end to someone trying to fix the electronics <br />out there, and here we are a year later still in the same <br />process. Staff recommendation, based on the 4 items cited and <br />the recommendation of W.R. Frizzell, is that we continue on with <br />hiring an engineer to design an electronic system there that will <br />be workable and go against the applicable bonding companies. <br />Commissioner Scurlock asked if the County Attorney had any <br />comments on the legal aspects of this. <br />County Attorney Vitunac confirmed that we will be exactly <br />where we were three weeks ago. His office will write another <br />letter stating that we gave them the 3 weeks as requested; per- <br />formance is still not satisfactory; and we are continuing against <br />their bonding company. He believed we have bent over backwards <br />twice or more to give them an opportunity to fix that job. <br />Commissioner Bird stated that his big concern is whether we <br />can go out and find an expert that is any smarter than the last <br />one we had. We thought we had the foremost experts in the county <br />design us a state-of-the-art Jail, and now it turns out that we <br />somehow overlooked providing adequate space for juvenile <br />prisoners or female prisoners. <br />Chairman Wheeler noted that to add to that, we don't even <br />have adequate space at the Jail whether or not it contains <br />juveniles or females. When all the phases are completed, we will <br />have adequate space, however. <br />JUL I Pi 'M89 <br />29 C,U 0 F r7 7 f1r, F.r <br />