Pulaski County Commissioners Updated on Maintenance Issues

Pulaski County continues to deal with some maintenance challenges at its government buildings. Elevators at the courthouse and the annex building were both repaired earlier this summer, but Maintenance Supervisor Jeff Johnston told the county commissioners Monday a few issues remained. “The one over at the annex building, they repaired it, but they never set the height limits,” he explained. “So it’s still not working.” But he said the elevator was scheduled to be fixed later Monday.

Meanwhile, Johnston plans to meet with Keystone Architecture to discuss the full replacement of the courthouse elevator. The existing elevator is considered too small to easily fit people using wheelchairs. That’s led to complaints about a lack of ADA compliance at the courthouse. Johnston hopes to have an update for the commissioners next month.

On top of that, several emergency responders were called to the Pulaski County Justice Center Monday, due to an issue with the fire alarm. “Apparently, there’s a sensor in the boiler room, and when there’s a large change in temperature, it trips it. So we had fire departments over there [Monday] morning,” he said. “I’ll be looking into that, to figure our why it’s doing that and right that.”

Plans are also moving ahead for a new door control system at the justice center. Sheriff Jeff Richwine told the commissioners that Security Automation Systems of Indianapolis has agreed to the county’s conditions for the project. Last week, the county council suggested that the sheriff make a down payment on the new system this year, and pay the remainder of the cost out of next year’s budget.

Meanwhile, Richwine said the door control system went down again within the past week, but restarted itself.