VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - The Valdosta Police Department's building is in need of some major repairs to its roof in order to keep day to day operations flowing smoothly.
"We've got multiple leaks in our roof upstairs and it's starting to affect the overall operation of what we do in the building," Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress.
Leaks in the roof have left some of the departments inside the building at risk of losing crucial data.
"When I say leaks, we got leaks in investigations," said Childress. "We've had some water creep down toward the area of our server room, and we can't have any of that," said Childress.
The current roof is a flat-top that's prone to hold a lot of water, which prevents proper drainage. The new roof would counter at that.
"What they are going to be putting on now is kind of a seamless roof, and they're going to be putting it over the existing roof," said Childress. "But the best way to describe it would be a very thick sheet of some type of a liner," said Childress.
The estimated cost for the new roof would be $65,000. Childress says this is cheaper than building a whole new building.
"I've had a lot of folks ask me about this building, do we need a new building? I don't think so, because we've done a lot of work in it structurally, but that's kind of the last part of making this building last another 20 years," said Childress.
In the future, the department plans to focus on the technical side of the department, as it runs into issues installing modern day technology.
Again, the bid for the new roof is set to be voted on next week.
