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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 6, 2016 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 1 <br /> SUBJECT: Detention Center: Update on Project Schedule and Discussion of Potential <br /> Scope Expansion to Include Law Enforcement Center/Sheriffs Offices <br /> DEPARTMENT: Asset Management Services, <br /> County Manager's Office, <br /> Sheriff's Office <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Scope Options, Comparative Information Jeff Thompson, 919-245-2658 <br /> Travis Myren, 919-245-2308 <br /> Sheriff Charles Blackwood, 919-245- <br /> 2900 <br /> PURPOSE: To: <br /> a) receive an update on the Detention Center project schedule; and <br /> b) discuss and provide feedback to staff regarding a potential project scope expansion to <br /> move the existing Sheriffs Office administrative offices from the lower level of the <br /> courthouse to a co-located Law Enforcement Center on the new jail site. Court <br /> security staff would maintain offices in the courthouse. <br /> BACKGROUND: After authorizing the Manager to engage Moseley Architects as the designer <br /> for the Detention Center project in the summer of 2015, initial project vision planning, <br /> comprehensive stakeholder input sessions, the jail population profile, and projections for future <br /> growth were conducted in the fall of 2015. <br /> Subsequent schematic programming and planning activities were halted in the fall of 2015 in <br /> order to process an amendment to the County's Ground Lease with the State of North Carolina <br /> enabling the County to provide the built detention facility as collateral for standard project debt <br /> financing. This amendment was successfully achieved through enabling legislation approved by <br /> the State Legislature in the summer of 2016. The County is currently awaiting an executed <br /> lease amendment from the State and will fully resume planning and design efforts once this fully <br /> executed amendment is returned to the County. <br />