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also used the shared community room over time for public meetings, training sessions and departmental meetings. In the recent past, Emergency Management has used the larger office on site for occasional overflow capacity to meet their operational requirements, Now that the County has acquired the Tweeter Building, preliminary planning indicates that the need for dedicated County space at the Policing Center may be considerably lessened and pending final review by the Space Needs Committee (Commissioners .Jacobs and Halkiotis serve as BOCC representatives), the opportunity may exist to release any/all County space to address needs raised by the Town. The Boards will likely want to discuss any interests in this possibility, A floor plan far the Center is attached, Attachment 1-e -Community Policing Center Floor Plan f) Habitat for Humanity Project The Affordable Housing Band Project Review Committee (County Commissioner Valerie Faushee serves as BOCC representative) has met to review a "pre-application" request from Habitat far Humanity, Habitat plans to request $116,250 in bond funds to cover 75% of the purchase price for ten lots in the Fairview neighborhood of Hillsborough. The remaining funding will come from private sources, It is anticipated that closing nn the lots will occur by the end of the current fiscal year and that housing constn~ction, beginning in the fall, will occur aver the next 1-2 years. Habitat expects to make its formal application to the Committee later this spring with a final decision an bond fund allocation to be scheduled before the BOGC. The letter from Habitat to the Committee, the Hillsborough Board's resolution regarding the project, and a map noting the Habitat lots are attached. The Boards may want to discuss and share any relevant information regarding this project. Attachment 1-f-1 - 1/5/06 Habitat Letter to Affordable Housing Band Project Review Committee Attachment 1-f-2 - 12/12/05 Hillsborough Board Resolution on Habitat Project Attachment 1-f-3 -Map Showing Habitat Lots g) Town Public Works Facility Siting This item provides the opportunity far an update on progress and other information related to the Town's Public Works Facility siting and for the Boards to discuss as necessary, No Attachments h) Temporary Solid Waste Convenience Center The County was notified in August 2005 that its lease for use of the Highway 57 Solid Waste Convenience Center (SWCC) would not be renewed by the owner upon its expiration on April 1, 2006. Since that time, the County has been exploring options for bath long-term and temporary replacement of that SWCC. There are three footprints for a small, temporary SWCC site at the County's Public Works site on Highway 86N that remain under consideration. However, the principal focus is on identifying a passible permanent replacement SWCC site, perhaps to be co-located with one or more other County facilities, such as a park.. The owner of the Highway