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186 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Ag da <br /> Item No. <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: NOVEMBER 3, 1986 <br /> SUBJECT: LEASE OF SPACE FOR DRIVER'S LICENSE OFFICE <br /> DEPARTMENT: PURCHASING PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: PAM JONES, <br /> OFFICE,X497 <br /> LEASE TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider entering into a lease for office space at Planta- <br /> tion Plaza, Carrboro, N.C. for the purpose of housing a <br /> Sheriff's Office and the Driver's License Bureau currently <br /> housed in Carrboro Town Hall. <br /> NEED: The Town of Carrboro, some time ago, requested the Driver's <br /> License Bureau be moved from their facility to make room for <br /> expanding Town programs. At this time a search was launced to <br /> find alternate lease space in the same vicinity. All <br /> available space was found to be priced beyond acceptable lease <br /> rates so the feasibility of placing the Bureau at the <br /> Homestead Building was explored. Due to the diversity of the <br /> needs of tenants slated to occupy that building, it is now <br /> deemed in the County's interest not to co-locate the two acti- <br /> vities (Driver's License and Recreation) together in the same <br /> building. <br /> Plantation Plaza, which was one of the earlier explored lease <br /> locations, is presently able to offer a much better rate than <br /> previously quoted making it a more suitable and affordable <br /> site to locate the Bureau. <br /> Its advantages include: <br /> 1) location is easily accessible to the citizenry; <br /> 2) traffic flow around the area is not conjested, an impor- <br /> tant factor for citizens taking the driving test; <br /> 3) the lease rate is less than that currently paid in other <br /> locations, and the facility is newer; <br /> 4) adequate parking is available. <br /> The Sheriff has also expressed a need for office space which <br /> he would like to be outside the main flow of traffic of the <br /> downtown yet central enough to serve citizens in an efficient <br />