New heating and cooling units were installed earlier this week for the fitness and aerobics rooms at the Greene County Community Center.
The units are located on the roof of the building. The 16-year-old units, original to the building, were disconnected Monday and taken off the roof Tuesday morning. New units were quickly put up and the crane was gone by lunch time.
Cost of the two units, a 7.5-ton unit and a 10-ton unit, was $18,500, according to Jefferson park and recreation director Vicky Lautner. That includes a $1,300 hail guard. The design of the original units allowed any hail damage to be repaired, but a change in technology and design in the new units makes repair impossible, Lautner explained. That made the additional cost of the hail guard prudent.
Funding for the units came from PACE, the group established many years ago to fund the construction and later maintenance of the Community Center, and from the city’s motel/hotel tax revenues.
