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Update: Project designers, Dixon- Weinstein met recently with County staff to finalize design plans for the building. The project is expected to go out to bid within the next few weeks. Construction completion is anticipated by Fall 2007. The aforementioned lease extension for the University owned property upon which the Animal Shelter is built, will also affect the location of the current Solid Waste Administration offices. The lease will include this area and will be of a sufficient term to complete the Solid Waste administrative offices on Eubanks Road. The timeline for the funding of this project remains as a 9A project, which provides funding during FY 2006, FY 2007 or FY 2008. Library —Tier I In accordance with the Library Task Force Report and to provide sufficient expansion space for other Human Services Departments at the Whitted Building, a new main Library building is proposed. Approximately 45,000 square feet of Library space is proposed plus a Heritage Center of approximately 10,000 square feet, for a total of 55,000 square feet of new space. The Library could be located on the new county campus, assuming the site met criteria agreed to by the County Commissioners and others as may be appropriate. A cybrary/branch library will remain at the Whitted campus. Update: A new 23,454 square foot main Library will be constructed on the recently approved expanded County Campus in downtown Hillsborough. The County will select a library space planner within the next few weeks to assist with the development of the interior of the building, which is scheduled for completion no later than May 2008. The study group recommends that approximately. 90,000 square feet of the existing Library on Tryon Street be reallocated for use as a Heritage Center. As a reminder, the following information regarding the Heritage Center was included in the Library Task Force report: Orange County has many valuable, even irreplaceable, historical records. Currently these records are scattered and poorly maintained To preserve and consolidate these records and make them available for citizen use, an Orange County Heritage Center is proposed Currently, collections exist in the North Carolina Room (a part of the Orange County Public Library), the Burwell School (records of the Historic Hillsborough Historical Society), and the Orange County Historical Museum. Most of the records held by the last three organizations are not cataloged nor are they readily accessible to researchers. In addition, standard conservation practices are not in place. XI