Millions in federal pandemic relief funds through ARPA were previously being considered for a new public health building, and officials are now rushing to find ways to spend the funds before they e…
Instead of spending $18 million in federal relief funds on a new public health building, a Kane County committee is proposing using much of those funds to make needed improvements and upgrades to key systems like the heating, ventilation and cooling systems at the county’s Sheriff’s Office and jail.
At a meeting on April 24, ARPA Committee members recommended spending almost $15 million on 12 projects, which included the renovation of the heating, ventilation and cooling system in the county’s two jail towers, projected to cost over $7 million, and the replacement of the chillers in the county’s judicial center, projected to cost $2 million.
The goal, he said, is for all of the county’s ARPA funds to be assigned to projects by the APRA Committee in May, and for all of those projects to be approved by the Kane County Board in June. ARPA has strict requirements for which projects and programs the funds are allowed to support, and Sanchez said the proposed projects are all allowed under current federal guidance.
Two such projects are the $7 million HVAC replacement project in the county’s two jail towers and a $1.44 million HVAC replacement project in the sheriff’s office, Fahnestock said.to start those projects by hiring an engineering firm to redesign the HVAC system in the jail and sheriff’s office.
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