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15 1 took away the direction not to pursue funding for a new Agricultural, Environment, and Parks 2 Center at Blackwood Farm Park. He said staff instead will look at using Revere Road in its 3 current state, with plans for HVAC replacement, new roofing, and parking improvements. He 4 said staff has also looked at adaptive re -use or deconstruction /new construction of the Revere 5 Road building. He said Blackwood Farm Park would keep its intended park operations base. 6 He said staff would prepare updated CIP pages for the Board for the May 15 work session. He 7 said this applies to any changes the Board would like to see. 8 Jeff Thompson referred to the Revere Road building and said there have been meetings 9 with asset management services staff to go through a deliberate space planning exercise to 10 bring this to an adaptive re -use or a re- construction scenario. He said the purpose of the space 11 planning meetings was to make sure the spaces were covered and there was efficiency of the 12 spaces. He said the output was about a 17,000 square foot adaptive re -use or new 13 construction. He said 15,000 feet would be conditioned space, and 2,000 feet would be an 14 outside multi - purpose covered porch space that could be used for classes and various outdoor 15 activities. He said there is adequate use on the site to do this as an adaptive re -use or a de- 16 construction /rebuild. 17 He said the cost is in the range of $225 - $235 per square foot for either option. He said 18 the reason for the comparison is because there are different challenges on either side. He said 19 the cost increase and labor are more intensive on an adaptive re -use, and there are more 20 contingencies, so the pricing on either option is comparison. He said the pricing for this is 21 about $3.9 million. 22 Jeff Thompson said staff also studied a 2500 square foot internal space for a parks 23 operation base at Blackwood Farm, as opposed to the full agricultural base. He said there was 24 an additional 2000 square feet of porch space. He said this is about $210 per square foot, 25 which would equal $935,000. He said the repair cost of the agricultural center at Revere Road, 26 which is $1.43 million, would be absorbed into the adaptive re -use or the new construction. He 27 said this, added to the $5.6 million for the full agricultural center in the current CIP, would total 28 $7.32 million 29 Jeff Thompson said the total for the adaptive re -use or new construction at Revere Road 30 and the parks operations base would be $4.9 million. He said this is a savings of $2.6 million. 31 He said the details of how this lays out can be brought to the May 15th work session. He said 32 the stake holders at the agricultural center were pleased with the outcome. 33 Dave Stancil said staff did involve the farm services agency director and the cooperative 34 extension director in the meetings. He said he also met with the chair and vice chair of the soil 35 and water board, and they were very positive about the idea of a new or retrofitted facility. He 36 thinks there was greater interest in a new facility. He said staff sees this as a great opportunity 37 and a good net reduction. 38 Chair Jacobs asked if this would include removal of the stored documents. 39 Jeff Thompson said the document storage would have to be relocated, and staff is 40 looking at other options. 41 Michael Talbert said the rebuild would require staff to move out for a year to 18 months. 42 Jeff Thompson said staff feels like there is enough of a site there that if there was a new 43 build, the deconstruction would not have to happen right away. He said adaptive re -use would 44 require relocation. 45 Chair Jacobs asked if staff envisions doing this adjacent to the current facility. 46 Jeff Thompson said it would be either perpendicular to or parallel to a north south axis. 47 He said the challenge is making sure there is adequate parking and circulation access. 48 Commissioner Gordon said there is a little building that used to be used by animal 49 services and is now being used by emergency services. She asked if this would stay. 50 Jeff Thompson said it could stay or be removed from the site.