Just kidding, kinda. Don’t be surprised if the City-County Building is locked more often!
To all City-County Building Staff,
As of today, the work to make the Wilson Street entrance card-accessible has been completed. Access cards and elevator keys have been processed and distributed. Signage is being changed. New procedures for opening the CCB in the morning and locking it up at night and on weekends/holidays have been developed.
Here’s what to expect next…nothing changes this weekend. The routine weekend accessibility and security procedures are still being followed this Saturday and Sunday, April 18th and 19th.
Nothing changes Monday morning April 20th. Entrances, elevators, restrooms will be open at their usual times.
Monday late afternoon/early evening, things change.
Here’s what happens:
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Street entrance will be locked at 5:00P OR when the last public meeting in the building has concluded.
The Carroll Street entrance will be locked at 5:00P, but card (and elevator key) accessible for employees as it has been for some time now. The Wilson Street entrance will be open until 10:00P for Jail Visitation, after which it will be locked, but card accessible for building employees. Securing of the restrooms and elevators coincide with the MLK entrance lockdown.
At 10:30P, JBM Security will perform a sweep of the building to check secured entrances and areas to make sure everyone who is not an employee, has left the building.
On Tuesday morning April 21st, Facilities Management staff will start at 4:30A, turning on lights, opening restrooms, putting up gates, and turning on elevators, making these available to building staff, most likely earlier than when the building opened at 6:00A, because of the card accessibility for employees at the Wilson and Carroll Street entrances. Facilities staff will open the MLK entrance manually at 7:20A, Wilson and Carroll Street entrances will switch to a ‘free access’ schedule at 7:20A (the CCB Controlled Access computer changes the Wilson and Carroll Street entrances from “card access only” to “free access”).
This is the new weekday lockdown and opening process for the new building hours.
On weekends, beginning with April 25th-26th , the MLK entrance will be locked. The Wilson and Carroll Street entrances will be card accessible. Saturdays and Sundays, JBM Security will be at the Wilson Street entrance from the beginning of “weekend” jail visitation to the end, checking individuals in for their scheduled visits.
Recognizing any change of this magnitude may require some “tweaking”, please be patient with the process and thanks for your cooperation in making our workplace more secure than it previously was.
Thanks,
Steve Alwin
Dane County Facilities ManagementDan Lowndes
Dane County Risk Management
