Commissioners Extend Courthouse Contract 84 Days
The Geauga County Commissioners voted Dec. 30 to extend their contract with Infinity Construction for the Geauga County Courthouse expansion by 84 days, moving the date of substantial completion from Nov. 8, 2025, to Jan. 31, 2026.
The Geauga County Commissioners voted Dec. 30 to extend their contract with Infinity Construction for the Geauga County Courthouse expansion by 84 days, moving the date of substantial completion from Nov. 8, 2025, to Jan. 31, 2026.
Substantial completion is when the owner can occupy the building to use as intended, even if there are still small fixes or touch-ups to address, County Administrator Amy Bevan said Jan. 6.
The change is due to furniture and fire monitoring services needing to be acquired, Bevan said at the December meeting.
The extension does not impact anything in the contract, but rather is something county officials wanted to have in writing, she added.
As of November 2025, Infinity Construction Project Superintendent Joe Daugherty estimated the courthouse move-in date to be January 2026.
That date is now likely to be the first week of February, Bevan said Jan. 6.
In other business, the board awarded a $327,900 bid to the John F. Gallagher Plumbing Company for a project upgrading the condensers in the West Geauga Senior Center.
The project involves replacing two chillers, one around 20 years old and one around five years old, Project Manager Charles Tkach said in November, when the project was originally put out to bid.
One chiller can be sold on GovDeals, he added at the December meeting.
The chillers no longer meet regulation because of the gases used in the system, Geauga County Assistant Administrator Mark Jimison said Jan. 6.
“Although the five-year-old unit is functional, replacing only one unit would have resulted in two different units operating with two different gases, increasing maintenance load,” Jimison said. “More significantly, the units would operate independently — one cooling one side of the building and the other cooling the opposite side. If one unit went down, it would not be able to cool the other side of the building.”
Jimison was unable to estimate how much the chiller might sell for on GovDeals because it is obsolete.
The bid award passed in a 2-1 vote, with Commissioner Carolyn Brakey voting against it, saying she believed the five-year-old chiller did not need to be replaced.
