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18 <br /> Visitor's Bureau Commissioner Rich — Member— Finance <br /> Officer <br /> BOARDS TO WHICH BOCC HAS ALREADY <br /> MADE APPOINTMENTS for 2015 <br /> NACo Voting Delegate Commissioner Price <br /> NCACC Voting Delegate Commissioner Price <br /> Triangle Transit Special Tax Board Commissioner Dorosin <br /> Commissioner Burroughs <br /> LIWG ( Legislative Issues Work Group) Commissioner Burroughs and <br /> Commissioner Rich <br /> SHORT TERM TASK FORCES/WORKGROUPS <br /> Alternatives to Jail Assessment Work Commissioner Jacobs <br /> Group and Commissioner Pelissier <br /> Cedar Grove Advisory Board Meeting Commissioner Jacobs <br /> and Commissioner Price <br /> Strategic Communications Work In Maintenance <br /> Group <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Group (SWAG) Commissioner Jacobs <br /> and Commissioner Rich <br /> Space Study Work Group In Maintenance <br /> EX-OFFICIO <br /> Hillsborough/Orange County Chamber of Commerce- Chair Serves <br /> does not require a Commissioner <br /> NC DOT Quarterly Meetings Chair/Vice Chair <br /> School Collaboration Meetings Chair/Vice Chair <br /> 4. Environment and Agricultural Center Project Update <br /> Due to time constraints this item is considered an Information Item. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> On June 16, 2015 the Board of County Commissioners appropriated design and due <br /> diligence funds in the FY2015-16 Capital Investment Plan for a new or renovated Environment <br /> and Agricultural Center on its existing and desired Revere Road site. The purpose of the <br /> renovation is to improve the facility as an operationally efficient and centralized provider of <br /> agriculture related services. <br /> Over the past three months, County staff and consultants have performed due <br /> diligence on the site in preparation for the coming engineering and design activities. A request <br /> for qualifications ("RFQ") process was initiated in September 2015 for the designer for the <br /> project. Nine submittals were reviewed, and four firms interviewed with a staff panel <br /> representing DEAPR, Cooperative Extension, Asset Management Services, the Soil & Water <br /> Conservation District Board of Supervisors, and the Commission for the Environment. The <br /> interview panel has since selected a preferred designer. Staff is negotiating the professional <br /> services agreement and related fees and hopes to bring a recommendation for this firm as part <br /> of the agenda review process in March. <br /> Once the designer is engaged, the first priority in the design process will be to solicit <br />