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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 21, 2010 Action Agenda Item No. (p -~ SUBJECT: Reallocation of Space at the Whiffed Buildin DEPARTMENT: Asset Management & Purchasing Services, County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Whiffed Building Floor Plans Orange County Schools Correspondence INFORMATION CONTACT: Frank Clifton, County Manager, (919) 245-2300 Pam Jones, Asset Management & Purchasing Services, (919) 245-2652 PURPOSE: To consider endorsing the Manager's recommended reallocation of space within the Whiffed Building. BACKGROUND: With the recent relocation of Social Services to the newly upfit leased space at Hillsborough Commons, much of the Whiffed Building is vacant. As the Board is aware, the Manager is recommending the space be used to the maximum extent possible to accommodate Orange County Schools, the Health Department and Housing/Community Development. To that end, the Manager is recommending space within the Whiffed Building be reallocated as follows: 1. Basement level of Building A will be allocated for use by the Health Department (see attached drawing #1). This reallocation of space will enable the Health Department to develop clinic space to meet operational space requirements for the next three to five years, pending future decisions relative to the Hillsborough Commons project. The Health Director has expressed an interest in moving medical clinical services to the expansion area, thereby providing some much needed expansion area for the Dental Clinic. Dental Clinic expansion in Hillsborough would allow the County to release the leased space in Carr Mill Mall at least by expiration of the lease in December 2011. OPC Mental Health contractors currently occupying space on this level will be encouraged to seek alternative arrangements in order to allow the orderly development of clinic space on the lower level.