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te6\Ag A Staff Recommendations. to the i4� Senior Citizens Board on the On the Orange County Facility Study Hills:icrough Department on Aging Offices • and Senior Center The recently issued Orange County Facility Study did note the over- crowding of the Hillsborough Department on Aging Administrative offices and Senior Center. The Department's staff supports the recommendation to leave both the Center and the Department's administrative offices at their current location at 300 West Tryon Street. This facility, known in the community as the "Old Grady Brown School" , was attended by many of the Senior Citizens and their children. That identification and the co-loca- tion with other services, especially the Public Library, make this an ex- cellant location. Our concern is with the failure of the study to identify specific space needs for this Department. While clearly stating that 250 sq. ft. of Department on Aging space should be given to the Health Department, it merely states that :'some' of the soon-to-be vacated Purchasing and Central Services space be turned over to DoA. Therefore, we would make the following recommendations (please consult the attached diagram) . The rapidly expanding CAT Transportation Service is resulting in an increase in the number of staff (drivers) and clients (of all ages) who are using the Center. There is no place for these people to wait between work shifts or for shuttle vans. Due to increased use of the Hillsborough facility by other DoA staff, there is no longer a Visiting Agency Office . Many times , the large DoA Conference Room is inappropriately used by very small groups because there is no other space available. And the increasing demand for use of the Conference Room results in no space available for Senior Center programming. Based on these points, we would recommend that the Department on Aging be allocated all of the space that will be vacated by Purchasing/Central Stores Department. The distribution of space on the ground floor of the Human Services Complex would be as follows: Health Department - One small conference room created by dividing the current Craft Room in half and adding a door from the hallway (300 sq. ft. ) . Adult Day Treatment - Maintain current space minus the storage room off the central hallway which will be converted to a room to house a small Xerox copier for building use Deptartment' on Aging - Take over Purchasing/Central Services space, including small switchboard room for net gain of 800 sq.ft. The specific Department use of the additional space is indicated on the immediate (attachment #2) and long term (attachment #3) floor diagrams .