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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 2, 2015 Action Agenda Item No. 7 -b SUBJECT: Eubanks Road Solid Waste Convenience Center Construction DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1 - Temporary Site and Operations Plan Gayle Wilson, 919 - 968 -2885 2 - Schematic Site Plan Jeff Thompson, 919 - 245 -2658 PURPOSE: To: 1) Authorize staff to move forward with bid document preparation and bidding of the site expansion /improvement project in order that work can be initiated at the earliest possible time during the summer and fall months of 2015, 2) Authorize the Manager to award the bid and, upon County Attorney review, execute the construction contract for the Solid Waste Convenience Center expansion /improvements during the summer break in an amount not to exceed the project budget; and 3) Authorize the Manager to approve project change orders that do not in total exceed the project budget. BACKGROUND: The Board of Commissioners has approved the Capital Investment Plan (CIP) that includes the phasing of convenience center improvements. Walnut Grove Church Road Convenience Center was the first center to receive these improvements and service expansions that were completed in the spring of 2013. Walnut Grove was the first of the two planned for the two District Sites model. The Eubanks Road Convenience Center was the second District Center per the improvement plan. District Centers, as opposed to Neighborhood Centers, were larger in size, contained an expanded array of services, maintained longer hours of operation and required a more significant degree of construction. The Eubanks Road Convenience Center project will include improvements very similar to the center at Walnut Grove Church Road, albeit containing a larger household hazardous waste facility, the relocation of the landfill scale operations from the south of Eubanks Road (including a new shared entrance), extension of water and sewer utilities (including a fire hydrant) and a Sanitation truck parking shed. Purchase and installation of the scales will be by separate bid. The North Carolina Department of Transportation is requiring dedication of additional right -of -way along Eubanks Road, and an abstract for BOCC consideration and approval will be provided on the June 16 agenda. A project site plan is provided as Attachment 2. It was originally conceived that this project would be bid in November /December 2014 and construction begun in March /April 2015. However, delays in design and permitting have pushed