TROY – Portions of the Uncle Sam Garage will be shut off from use Friday following a review of engineering plans for the facility after a beam collapsed there Sunday, city officials told the City Council.

“They will be cordoned off until further examination is done,” Mayor Patrick Madden said Thursday night.

David Sheeran, the city’s principal code inspector, briefed the council members on the status of the garage, which remains open.

“The garage has not been inspected in the last four years,” Sheeran told the council.

As a result of a change in state law overseeing the inspection of parking garages, Sheeran said David Bryce, the owner of the garage and a downtown developer, should have filed an inspection report with the city this fall. When Bryce failed to do so, he was cited and did not appear at the city’s code court in November to answer the ticket, Sheeran said.

There is no code court scheduled for December. Another code court appearance has been scheduled for the end of January when the court is next convened.

“We’re working with him to get the situation worked out,” Sheeran said.

A draft set of inspection plans has been submitted to the city but requires an engineer’s stamp to be accepted as approved. Sheeran said the plans have been reviewed and considered in designating the problem areas inside the three-story garage.

The city has marked areas where repairs are needed with blue paint. The mayor said these sections would be blocked off until repairs are made. The rest of the garage is considered structurally safe to use.

“The garage is large, spanning the entire block between 3rd Street and 4th Street. The garage has a maximum capacity of 751 vehicles and accounts for 17.7% of off-street parking options in Downtown Troy,” according to the city’s Downtown Parking Study published in June 2016.

It was not known Thursday night how many of the garage’s parking spaces may be cordoned off.

The city sold the garage to Bryce in 2010 for $2.4 million. The garage is across the intersection from the Troy Atrium, which Bryce also owns.

Council President Carmella Mantello inquired about the availability of parking spaces at the city’s Fifth Avenue Garage for state Department of Labor employees currently using the Uncle Sam Garage. Mantello said she had received an inquiry from a labor department employee.

Deputy Mayor Monica Kurzejeski said city records would be checked to determine the availability of spaces. The city has a waiting list for people seeking to purchase the $60 per month parking permits for the garage. Kurzejeski said the city would not jump over those on the waiting list to accommodate people currently using the Uncle Sam Garage.

The state Public Employees Federation, the union representing labor department workers, said Thursday it has concerns with the garage’s condition.

“There is a history of problems at this garage. PEF leaders and staff did a walk-through over the summer and alerted state agencies on the hazards -including the same area where this beam fell,” PEF President Wayne Spence said in a statement. “We received no response after that."