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112 rtb s�aso`� June 28, 2012 To: Northern Human Services Center Meeting Attendees and Mailing List Thank you again for attending the public input session that was held in the cafeteria of the Northern Human Services Center on March 19. Since a few months have passed, we wanted to share with you an update on the status of this project. For those who may be on the mailing list but did not attend the March 19 meeting, the following is a summary of the information we provided that night about the reason for the meeting, and the status of the building: • The 1950 school building now has very little activity in it. The Cedar Grove Day Care will be moving out by December 31 to a new location. Most of the children being served there at present are not from Cedar Grove. • The only remaining uses are a classroom used by the Cedar Grove Park manager as an office, and some rooms used for storage of materials. • In 2010, it cost the County over $100,000 in annual operating expenses to keep the building open, resulting in the closing down of the wings. • The Board of County Commissioners has been apprised of this situation as part of their review of all County facilities. As a result, $250,000 was targeted in the five -year Capital Investment Plan (or CIP) for this site in 2012 -2013 - with an eye toward deconstruction /demolition of the facility in advance of a new as- yet - undetermined facility. However, before any further steps were taken, the Board asked staff to solicit resident feedback on the plans (and this led to the March 19 meeting in Cedar Grove). Upon sharing this information on March 19, a survey was distributed asking meeting attendees their thoughts about a new facility, versus trying to retain the gym /cafeteria section of the existing facility, and what uses residents were most interested in seeing. Orange County PO Box 8181 Hillsborough, NC 27278