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include the relocation of all other agriculture related functions in the Planning and Agriculture Building in order to maintain effective collaboration among the departments.} Option 4: Consider marketing the building for sale. FYI, the current tax value according to the Tax Assessor's office is $291,877 She said that staff did a site visit and the Building Inspector said that there would be no problem with having office space in this building. The Parks Operations Base would not create a lot of complications either, but there would need to be firewalls to separate the two offices and the Parks Operations Base. The space could be renovated under one of five different codes and probably not have to have sprinklers. The plumbing and HUAC would have to be upgraded and the roof is on the replacement schedule far this coming year. Commissioner Halkiotis said that they visited the OE building, and he agrees that building retaining walls and other requirements are too expensive for the short-term use of five years. He said that all of the mechanical equipment should be stored at Public Works and not within Recreation and Parks. He would like to look at siting a facility at Public Works and expanding onto the existing Public Works building for the Recreation and Parks equipment. Commissioner Jacobs would like to see a fiscal analysis far a parks operation center versus spending $33,OOOIyear on rent. He would like to see the minimalist approach to this. He would also like to see the reactions of the farm agencies to being moved from the northern part of Hillsborough to this site. He said that if they add more farm services staff then this could be a wash. The question would then become whether ERCD still needs to move out of the Planning building if the farm agencies free up the space. He said that the more long-term the solution, the more cost effective it would be. Chair Carey asked that the analysis include the possibility of locating the Parks Operations Base at Public Works. Commissioner Gordan asked if they were trying to get the operations base and office space in the same spot and Pam Janes said that, under an ideal circumstance, yes, but if they are looking at putting the base at Fairview, it is probably appropriate just to move that function and leave the administrative staff where they are for the time being. Commissioner Gordon said that it would be important to talk with the various departments to understand the needs of each department. Storage Facility Acquisition: John Link said that in the particular location that is being considered, there is another footprint for another storage facility. He said that this might not be able to be done without constructing another building. Pam Jones said that they would have some resolution on the storage facility acquisition within the next few weeks. Chair Carey suggested that Commissioners Halkiotis and Jacobs look at this analysis first before coming back to the Board. Pam Janes said that they would like to bring this back in late November or early December. Board of Elections Space Request: Pam Jones said that Board of Elections needs additional operations and storage space. Two options from the space study included relocating EDC to the facility that shall not be named and allowing the Board of Elections to take over the whole first floor of the Court Street Annex; and the second option was moving EDC or the Board of Elections to the Orange Enterprises building. She suggested that the Board let the staff work through the acquisition of the storage facility and bring a floor plan back.