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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March 1, 2005 Action Agenda Item No. q -~, SUBJECT: Conceptual Plan Approval: Solid Waste Operations Center Building DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central Services/ Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Memorandum Master Plan Site Drawing INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam .!ones (919) 245-2652 Gayle Wilson (919) 968-2885 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider endorsement of the proposed building conceptual plan for administrative offices of the Solid Waste Department. BACKGROUND: The University of North Carolina is requiring the Town of Chapel Hill to vacate their current Public Works site on Airport Road at the expiration of the lease on January 1, 2007, thereby necessitating the relocation of the County's Solid Waste Department, which is currently housed in a modular building at the same location,. The new building is to be sited on Eubanks Road Landfill property, pursuant to the Solid Waste Facilities Master Plan as approved by resolution by the Board in October 2001. Plans for a new administrative building have been included in the enterprise fund's capital improvement plan since 1996. The Town of Chapel Hill intends to vacate their current facilities by the lease expiration date.. This includes dismantling of all existing infrastructure, including structures, paving, parking, utilities, etc, and reverting the property back to as near its original condition as practically feasible, The existing Solid Waste Management administration building is located in the center of the Public Works site. Solid Waste currently also piggybacks onto the Chapel Hill Public Works Department's phone and messaging system. The County's Space Needs work group, which includes Commissioners .lacobs and Halkiotis, reviewed the specific needs for this facility during a meeting in early February 2005, The new building is intended to house full time employees, an intern, and the intermittent temporary/volunteer personnel presently located in the existing modular facility. It is also intended to allow the consolidation of all Solid Waste administrative, enforcement, and supervisory personnel in the department, currently housed in two temporary construction trailers and in the parts room of the maintenance building. The construction trailers do not have sanitary facilities and their inhabitants must drive or walk to the crew building for bathroom and