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Jim Groves said it had been an overwhelming success to co-locate with the fire departments. He said this helps with the geographical disbursements throughout the County, and the development of relationships. He said it also allows for joint training of fire and emergency services. Commissioner McKee asked if there are any numbers on run time reductions. Jim Groves said yes, but he does not have those numbers in front of him. He said the run times have gone up over the past three months due to the weather. He said there is data to show why this happened, and there is still a constant reduction in response times. Commissioner McKee said he does not see any problem leaving in the placeholder, but he hopes it will not be used. Paul Laughton referred to the earlier discussion of the Blackwood Farm Project as it relates to the discussion of Revere Road at the March 11, 2014 work session. He said staff took away the direction not to pursue funding for a new Agricultural, Environment, and Parks Center at Blackwood Farm Park. He said staff instead will look at using Revere Road in its current state, with plans for HVAC replacement, new roofing, and parking improvements. He said staff has also looked at adaptive re-use or deconstruction/new construction of the Revere Road building. He said Blackwood Farm Park would keep its intended park operations base. He said staff would prepare updated CIP pages for the Board for the May 15 work session. He said this applies to any changes the Board would like to see. Jeff Thompson referred to the Revere Road building and said there have been meetings with asset management services staff to go through a deliberate space planning exercise to bring this to an adaptive re-use or a re-construction scenario. He said the purpose of the space planning meetings was to make sure the spaces were covered and there was efficiency of the spaces. He said the output was about a 17,000 square foot adaptive re-use or new construction. He said 15,000 feet would be conditioned space, and 2,000 feet would be an outside multi-purpose covered porch space that could be used for classes and various outdoor activities. He said there is adequate use on the site to do this as an adaptive re-use or a de-construction/rebuild. He said the cost is in the range of$225 - $235 per square foot for either option. He said the reason for the comparison is because there are different challenges on either side. He said the cost increase and labor are more intensive on an adaptive re-use, and there are more contingencies, so the pricing on either option is comparison. He said the pricing for this is about $3.9 million. Jeff Thompson said staff also studied a 2500 square foot internal space for a parks operation base at Blackwood Farm, as opposed to the full agricultural base. He said there was an additional 2000 square feet of porch space. He said this is about $210 per square foot, which would equal $935,000. He said the repair cost of the agricultural center at Revere Road, which is $1.43 million, would be absorbed into the adaptive re-use or the new construction. He said this, added to the $5.6 million for the full agricultural center in the current CIP, would total $7.32 million Jeff Thompson said the total for the adaptive re-use or new construction at Revere Road and the parks operations base would be $4.9 million. He said this is a savings of$2.6 million. He said the details of how this lays out can be brought to the May 15th work session. He said the stake holders at the agricultural center were pleased with the outcome. Dave Stancil said staff did involve the farm services agency director and the cooperative extension director in the meetings. He said he also met with the chair and vice chair of the soil and water board, and they were very positive about the idea of a new or retrofitted facility. He thinks there was greater interest in a new facility. He said staff sees this as a great opportunity and a good net reduction.