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24 Mrs. Tilley is retired from Orange County Schools (OCS) and she is proud that the County is 1 going to re-purpose her site. He said the other family members around the site have been 2 good to work with. 3 Sheriff Blackwood addressed the critical need for a new detention center. He said the 4 current one is aging, has serious challenges, and is not reflective of who Orange County is. He 5 said he is not proud of it, and his department wants to bring continued hope with this project, for 6 both the detention center staff and inmates. He said some of the current challenges are 7 structural and infrastructural. 8 Commissioner Price asked the Sheriff about the amount of traffic that will be coming in 9 and out of the jail. 10 Sheriff Blackwood said the traffic will be about the same as it is now, which is minimal. 11 He said he cannot predict traffic patterns. 12 Commissioner Price said she has heard concerns from the public that there will be 13 police cars coming and going all night with sirens blasting. 14 Sheriff Blackwood said the operations are not centrally located, and staffs do not come 15 back to the office for briefing, but rather do it electronically. He said the cars with running 16 sirens are out and about in the County. He said if an event occurs that requires all staff to 17 respond, then yes there will be sirens, but they will be leaving Hillsborough, not coming in. He 18 said the entire department is a necessary evil. 19 Commissioner McKee asked if the BOCC approves this tonight, is it only approving the 20 acquisition of the land, and not specific uses. 21 Bonnie Hammersley said BOCC approval would be approving specific uses. 22 Commissioner McKee said he is supportive of the need for a detention center, but he is 23 not supportive of a recreation or agricultural center, due to budget constraints. He asked if the 24 BOCC will have another opportunity to approve specific projects moving forward. 25 Bonnie Hammersley said this opportunity will be available during the Capital Investment 26 Plan (CIP). She said if not all of the uses are included, the economics of the project will not 27 work. She said no significant or irreversible work will be done between now and the adoption of 28 the budget on June 19th. She said these discussions can be part of the budget process. 29 Commissioner McKee clarified that, other than the purchase of the property, and the 30 intent to move forward with the detention center, nothing is set in concrete with this vote. 31 Bonnie Hammersley said she cannot answer that right now, because of the economics 32 that make this project work. 33 Jeff Thompson said last year, the options for the agricultural center were reviewed, and 34 the BOCC gave direction to go into the Cornelius Road corridor, and the dollars for that are 35 already appropriated in the CIP. He said the BOCC indicated a desire to repurpose the Revere 36 Road site, and pursue a greenfield option in the Cornelius Road corridor. 37 Commissioner McKee said he was opposed to those decisions as well. 38 Jeff Thompson said the important point is that the money is already appropriated for the 39 greenfield site for the Agricultural Center. 40 41 A motion was made by Commissioner Marcoplos, seconded by Commissioner Rich for 42 the Board to: 43 1) Authorize the Manager to proceed with the acquisition of approximately 21 acres located 44 with the Hillsborough Highway 70/Cornelius Street corridor known as the “Hwy 70 Site 45 Assembly” for the development of the Orange County Northern Campus site that 46 addresses multiple County Capital Investment Plan initiatives; and 47 2) Authorize the Manager to sign the necessary documents for closing the transaction upon 48 final review of the County Attorney. 49 50