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Contract with jail planning specialist to: • Analyze and recommend efficiencies in the use of existing space and proposed cell expansion • Analyze future detention needs • Recommend alternatives, complete with feasibility of development in Orange County • Provide operational and construction cost estimates • Provide critical analysis of sites that may be considered Update on Other Properties • 112 N. Churton Street and 129 East King Street remain for sale — Interest expressed for incubator business at either building, but 129 is preferred • 1914 New Hope Church Road — Orange County Board of Education has offered to purchase for$100,000, funded from their pay as you go allocation over four years Pam Jones said that the owner of Hillsborough Commons did not want to extend an option without significant money from the County. It is 10 acres and 108,000 square feet, so there is some value, just not as much as he thinks. She asked the owner to come back with some proposals that might work for both parties. Most of the shops there are closed. The only thing left is the optometrist and the Dollar Tree. Commissioner Jacobs said that he is not ready to have a consultant contract come back until he knows what is going on with the budget. On the scale of priorities, this is not high to him. Chair Foushee echoed Commissioner Jacobs' comments. The Commissioners agreed that they did not wish to retain the professional services for Central Orange Human Services described in the staff recommendation. Commissioner Gordon said that for the foreseeable future, the County is consolidating services in Hillsborough. She thinks that they should start thinking about consolidating services in the population centroid, which is the northern part of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. She said that the County says it has a dual-service model, but it does not. She thinks that the County Commissioners have to seriously grapple with this political question before getting into the details. This is a serious issue. Commissioner Yuhasz said that it is also important to look at the center of population that is being served and not necessarily the overall population. Pam Jones continued with the PowerPoint presentation The Commissioners discussed the Southern Human Services Center campus. Commissioner Jacobs said that the color map for the campus was confusing at this point. Also, building area 7 has the most mature hardwoods. He would not want to lose what was done when the staff walked the tract before.