Commissioners heard from Maintenance Director Kurt Guidry during a workshop Monday that only two items remain to be checked off a final list for the Orange County Expo Center. The list being checked off is not the first to be done, rather the ninth and should be the last. Colin Garrett with G&G Enterprises Construction said he has worked closely with Orange County even past his company’s expired warranty date to help get the Expo Center completed. Garrett clarified that the original punch list was a year and a half ago and the items needing attention were successfully completed. They have now moved through the warranty phase, completed all of those items, and now are in the document close out phase which are the items they are still working on according to Garrett. The whole process has included nine different lists on the Expo Center project for the last two years and two months. Guidry is working with the contractor Garrett to get the last two items approved. The question of responsibility for a solution to the safety of maintenance around the center’s emergency generators seems to have fallen now on the county and not the contractor. County Judge Brint Carlton requested Ryan Peabody of Emergency Management work up some specifications for several prospects to alleviate the hazardous condition he presented to the Court last week concerning maintenance around the area of the two emergency generators at the Expo Center.
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