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Clay County, with the assistance of a $328,284 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant, is preparing to replace 60 windows in the historic administration building on the Liberty Square.

“They’ll look old and have all the energy-efficient qualities of new windows,” Clay County Facilities Management Director Donna Koontz said.

The first step in replacing the windows is to send the project out for historical architectural engineering services.

“We’re going to go to bid as soon as we get the process lined up,” Koontz said.

She explained time is of the essence with an 18- to 22-week lead time needed to receive the windows, which have to be custom made.

Koontz said the county would like to have the windows installed in the administration building by late this fall.

“We’re hoping we don’t have to go into spring of 2011,” she said.

The window installation may involve temporary minor interior modifications in some areas of the building where ceilings have been lowered.

Koontz said at this time the county doesn’t anticipate any problems with the heating, cooling or electrical systems when replacing the windows.

Funding to replace the circa 1934 windows is coming from the ARRA grant, and a 30 percent match by the county.

Koontz said a portion of the county’s share would be covered through in-kind services.

“We’ll be using outside contractors, but we’ll do whatever we can ourselves,” she said.

Presiding Commissioner Ed Quick is grateful for the state and federal assistance with the project.

“Clay County really needed this grant funding to replace the windows,” he said in a prepared statement. “We think we will see a lot of cost savings in the long run.”

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