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1 <br /> APPROVED 12/5/2016 <br /> MINUTES <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Work Session <br /> October 6, 2016 <br /> 7:00 p.m. <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in a work session on Thursday, October 6, <br /> 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the Whitted Building, Hillsborough, N.C. immediately following the <br /> adjournment of the Joint Meeting with the Fire Chiefs' Council. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair McKee and Commissioners Mia Burroughs, <br /> Mark Dorosin, Barry Jacobs, Bernadette Pelissier, Renee Price and Penny Rich <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Deputy Manager Travis <br /> Myren and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified <br /> appropriately below). <br /> Chair McKee called the meeting to order at 8:52 p.m. <br /> 1. Detention Center: Update on Project Schedule and Discussion of Potential Scope <br /> Expansion to Include Law Enforcement Center/Sheriff's Offices <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> After authorizing the Manager to engage Moseley Architects as the designer for the Detention <br /> Center project in the summer of 2015, initial project vision planning, comprehensive <br /> stakeholder input sessions, the jail population profile, and projections for future growth were <br /> 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 <br /> by 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 <br /> fully executed amendment is returned to the County. <br /> Based upon the receipt of the executed Lease Agreement Amendment in October 2016, the <br /> projected timeline for this project is as follows: <br /> Activity Estimated Date Range <br /> BOCC: Construction Manager at October-November, 2016 <br /> Risk Award <br /> Schematic and Developmental Fall-Winter, 2016-2017 <br /> Design Preparations with Board and <br /> Stakeholder Review/Feedback <br />