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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 18, 2006 Action Agenda Item No. 7- G SUBJECT: Solid Waste Operations Center Design DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): 4/12/06 Dixon Weinstein Memo Excerpt - TJCOG High Performance Guidelines INFORMATION CONTACT: Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Director 919-968-2885 Alternate Building Design Schemes PURPOSE: To receive additional information about the proposed Solid Waste Operations Center and to consider providing conceptual approval of the building design. BACKGROUND: At the March 15, 2006 work session on solid waste matters, the architectural firm of Dixon Weinstein provided the Board of Commissioners with a presentation on the proposed design of the new Solid Waste Operations Center to be located on the south side of Eubanks Road, immediately adjacent and to the west of the County's mixed solid waste (MSW) landfill. The Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB) had received a brief presentation from the architects at their March 2 meeting and had given a favorable review to the planning efforts to date, The Board of Commissioners provided feedback regarding the proposed design, and asked the architects to prepare some additional information for subsequent presentation, Commissioners asked for an assessment of the energy exchange loss of the current design configuration compared to a more compact design with less exterior wall space. The architects have prepared the accompanying memo responding to the Board's March 15 comments and questions, and are ready to respond to this and any other BOCC observations. The next step after BOCC conceptual approval is to proceed to a meeting with community representatives, in collaboration with the Solid Waste Advisory Board, to review with them the BOCC's proposed design for the facility. The project timeline at this point contemplates soliciting and awarding constnaction bids in late summer or early fall 2006, with move-in to the new facility targeted for mid-2007. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Funding for the design and construction of the new facility will be addressed through debt financing to be repaid from revenues earmarked to the Solid Waste/Landfill Operations Enterprise Fund. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board receive the additional information, provide conceptual approval of the facility design, and instruct staff and architects to present the Board's design at a community meeting and to report back to the Board on feedback received from the community,.