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The exterior walls are stone, and there is some damage on the exterior of the building. The soffits are in poor condition with missing pieces, rust and peeling pant. We recommend the stone walls be cleaned, repaired, and sealed, and also that the soffits be repaired by replacing the missing pieces, scraping and painting. Some of the windows have wooden frames that are rotting that must be repaired. The doors are all in good condition.
There are no sprinklers, exit signs, emergency lights or fire alarm system in this building. We recommend that a fire alarm system with horn, strobe, heat and smoke detectors, a sprinkler system, and emergency lights in the stairwells and halls be installed.
Some of the electrical equipment in the building is the original wiring. We recommend that all the electrical wiring and equipment throughout the building be upgraded. There is an HVAC system that was updated in 1995. The old rooftop air conditioner for the courtroom is in poor condition and should be replaced.
The structure of the building has some problems. There is water leakage on the first floor. An engineering study should be done to determine the cause of the water damage. The dome is in poor shape with water damage, rot, and damaged stained glass, therefore, the dome be repaired or rebuilt to eliminate the rotted and water damaged materials, as well as to repair the stained glass. There also is water damage throughout the building that must be repaired once the cause of the damage has been eliminated. Another problem is that the marble floors on the porches are in poor condition with much missing mortar. For this we recommend that the marble be cleaned, re-pointed and sealed. The prosecuting attorney’s office was previously an atrium that has been enclosed. No beams were installed to distribute the weight. We recommend that an engineering study be performed on this office.
To improve security for the building, we recommend equipping the facility with an entry-level screening using a walk through metal detector and an X-ray machine. The metal detector from the courtroom can be used. An X-ray machine is needed. All other entry doors should be alarmed exit doors and should use card access. Window alarms should be installed on all lower level entry doors, more duress alarms are needed in the clerk’s offices, and a security console should be added. A closed circuit television is needed in the courthouse and ballistic material should be installed around benches and clerk’s desk. There should be dusk-to-dawn floodlights on the exterior of the building installed Additional security measures recommended are interior electric door strike lock systems on the judges’ secretaries’ doors, a separate phone line to provide the courts and staff with outside communication in each courtroom, audible alarms in all courtroom doors except the judges and the main entrance, magnetic contacts and crash bars, additional emergency lighting in courtrooms, judge’s chambers, and secretary’s offices, family law master office, probation officers’ office, prosecuting attorney’s office, circuit clerk’s office, and magistrate courtroom and offices. Protective window screen or grills should be install on windows to judge’s chambers and secretaries offices. The family law master door, the probation officers’ doors, and the circuit clerk’s door should be replaced with a solid wood door, and partitions to prevent entry to family law master office, prosecuting attorney’s office, and circuit clerk’s office should be installed.
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building to meet
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The J. Harper Meredith Building is attached to the rear of the Marion County Courthouse, and it is approximately 37,500 square feet. It was built in 1982, and is in good condition, except for a few problems. To solve these problems we recommend that all joints be recaulked between the pre-cast pieces on the entire building. The roof has poor drainage and because of this the roof should be replaced with a new membrane and install tapered insulation to properly slope the roof to drains. The caulking around the windows is either missing or old so we recommend that the windows be recaulked. The building has a fire alarm system but we recommend that the fire alarms be equipped with strobe lights and exit signs be installed and that this building have the same security upgrade as the courthouse building.
The Jacobs building is a five story brick building with a basement. The first floor has been covers with brown brick and metal panels, at which we recommend brickwork and metal paneling on the front of the building and restore the façade. A new fire alarm system has just been installed, but we recommend that the there be an addition of two layers of fire rated gypsum board to the underside of the first floor structure. Some new electrical equipment has been installed recently, but there still is some runs of Romex covered the ceiling of the basement. All the Romex wiring should be removed and new wiring in conduit be installed. There also needs to be fresh air vents installed and the building should be tested for asbestos and the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors should be remodeled.
The Marion
County Jail was built in 1910, and is approximately 16,560 square feet. The building has three stories and a
basement. The general condition of the
building is good. The exterior walls are
brick, which has some mortar missing and mold/moss growing on it. The brick should be cleaned, and any cracks
or missing mortar be repaired. The roof
is clay tile that is in good shape except for the rubber membrane around the
tile that leaks. The rubber membrane
should be replaced to fix the leakage problem.
Some of the windows appear to be original and the rotted areas of the
windows should be repaired, scraped, and painted. Also the grills and bars should be
removed. The exit doors in the building
should have panic hardware installed.
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Total cost of the project: $5,597,856