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COMMUNITY FACILITIES <br /> Within this classification are administration buildings, police, fire and public <br /> safety buildings, public works facilities, libraries, recreation buildings, parks and <br /> playgrounds. Many communities are making do with facilities that are marginally <br /> adequate. Some improvements are scheduled. <br /> Type Number Planned <br /> Facility 1985-1992 Est. Cost <br /> ($millions) <br /> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> Administration 5 $ 8.9 <br /> Public Safety 8 30.4 <br /> Libraries 2 6.1 <br /> Recreation Buildings 3 3.0 <br /> Parks and Playgrounds 11 3.5 <br /> Other 4 6.4 <br /> Total 33 56.3 <br /> Wake County operates 17 libraries. In most cases these had been Town libraries <br /> for which the County assumed operational responsibility in the Town owned <br /> building. This is true in Apex, Cary, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Knightdale, Raleigh <br /> (2), Wake Forest, Wendell, and Zebulon. In Raleigh space for three libraries is <br /> provided by the Housing Authority, space for three is rented and there is one <br /> joint school/library facility. The County rates 15 of these as adequate for the <br /> present only and two, in Raleigh, as inadequate, Apex, Garner and Zebulon rate <br /> their libraries as inadequate. <br /> Orange County makes contributions to three libraries which serve it: the Chapel <br /> Hill Municipal Library, the Mebane Library and the Occoneechee Regional <br /> Library which is located in the Hillsborough Human Services Building. <br /> Wake County plans a library headquarters as part of a joint use administration <br /> building ($2 million assigned here to the library) to be built in 1985 and has <br /> scheduled $2.0 million for library improvements in 1987-89. Chapel Hill plans an <br /> additional library at an estimated cost of $2.1 million. <br /> !1-20 <br />