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Emergency Management/9-1 -1 Center -Tier 2 <br />Emergency Management was classified as one of the higher priority needs in the 2000 <br />study. The Department has since absorbed the emergency medical transport function, <br />adding around 30 new employees. While the full complement of medical transport staff <br />is not based from this facility, office space as well as sleeping space for one unit has <br />been created. from a portion of the training room at the facility. The operations at <br />Emergency Management have significantly out -grown the existing space and cramped <br />conditions impair the daily efficiency of operations. The long -term solution, proposed as <br />a Tier 2B project (2013 - 2015) would consolidate the administrative, communications, <br />emergency medical and fire marshal divisions at the new county campus. However, <br />County Commissioners have recently authorized staff to consider acquisition of a <br />building that, among other uses, may serve as an interim location for the administrative <br />and other staff of Emergency Management. <br />The County Campus project approval allows additional space in the downtown <br />area to accommodate the EDC and Information Systems Department, both of <br />whom were scheduled to move to the building recently purchased by the County <br />in the Meadowlands, along with the administrative and Fire Marshal units of <br />Emergency Management. The available space at the Meadowlands facility is <br />sufficiently sized and conducive in design to Emergency Management operations. <br />Therefore it is recommended that the totality of EM operations be relocated to the <br />Meadowlands site. <br />New consoles acquired via a homeland Security Grant are currently under <br />construction and would be delivered to the Meadowlands site in time for <br />installation by March 31, 2007, which is the grant deadline. <br />Further, an emergency generator for the existing Emergency Management <br />building, also provided through grant funds, is being retooled for installation at <br />the Meadowlands facility. <br />The current Capital Investment Plan includes $400,000 for the upfit of this <br />building. /approximately $150,000 is allocated for the upfit of the previous <br />Orange Enterprises site on Valley Forge Road. This study recommends that <br />these funds be re- allocated to the EM project, which will begin upon approval by <br />the Board of Commissioners. Further, the Capital Investment Plan included $6 <br />Million in FY for construction of a new 911 .Center, which may now be <br />reallocated within the CIP projects to address building upfits that are prompted <br />by the implementation of this Study. <br />Public Works Administration and OPT Building —Tier 2 <br />The State of North Carolina has leased a modular office building for use by OPT <br />through 2008. This study recommends that.the lease be renewed, or contingent upon <br />funding from the State a new facility be constructed in conjunction with the Public Works <br />Administrative Building expansion. <br />XV I <br />