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Remove carpet, soft wall coverings, and untreated wood that may retain any bacteria, viruses, pests, or invite graffiti of any kind. Replace items with durable, high traffic flooring, paint, and finishes. - Add tables and seating for social activities such as card and board games, as well as dining needs. - Add additional televisions, telephones, and TTY/TTD or video relay device for visitors and residents. Offer day visitors the use of the dress in/dress out area so they may shower. Create a clothing closet for visitors and residents to exchange their street clothes for freshly laundered, new and gently used items to help keep the spread of bacteria, viruses, and pests at a minimum. - The visitation booth is currently non -contact and conducted through glass. Glass should be removed to create contact visitation between residents and outreach workers. Stools are not fixed allowing for ADA access, however height should be checked for ADA compliance. - Area can be noisy when busy. We recommend the addition of sound dampening materials throughout the area to help alleviate some of the reverberations. Materials used should be bacteria and pest resistant and able to withstand rigorous sanitation. Personal property storage is designed for up to 450 individuals and is inadequate when near capacity. The adjacent bulk storage could be used as overflow for Personal Property Storage. The two administration area restrooms for male and female employees contain some ADA aspects; however, the sink may not meet ADA height compliance. Housing Accommodations: With individual, double, and dormitory rooms, the shelter r has several options regarding population = distribution and length of stay. The Jail has I. 35.1% of its total area in housing and dayroom space. There are nine living unit y.} J wings and two dormitories at the Jail. The two 1 dormitories in the facility have capacities of 14 \ 1 ■ and 18 persons each. There are seven pods, each containing thirty-two double occupancy cells located on the third and fourth floors. Additionally, there are two pods, each containing 16 single cells on the fourth floor. Other than unit 4C, each unit has shared walls that can be retracted (roll -up into ceiling) and pocket doors that allow staff to join the two Housing areas. These retractable shared walls can create one larger unit, providing additional flexibility with the differing populations. The housing units are already designed for one or more individuals per cell or dorm. They contain dayrooms that provide indoor recreation, television viewing, telephones, places to dine, restrooms, and showers. There are classroom and program areas than can accommodate up to 20 persons for social activities, counseling, or religious services. Most housing units have outdoor or quasi -outdoor recreation yards adjacent to the dayroom than can be used for exercise and games such as basketball, volleyball, or handball. Rooms include a desk, toilet, and sink. Showers are located within the dayroom of the housing unit. Dorms contain portable chairs instead of fixed seats, and stack -a - beds are available to house overflow residents. Each dorm has a multi -toilet room near the back of the dorm and is connected to the emergency center. There are large curtains used to cover dorm windows for additional privacy or to screen females from males in the opposite dorm. 104 65A-111