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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 12, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. q-p <br />SUBJECT: Solid Waste Operations Center Conceptual Planning <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing & Central Services/ PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Solid Waste Management <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam ,Jones, (919) 245-2652 <br />Staff Memorandum Gayle Wilson, (919) 968-2885 <br />Master Plan Site Drawing TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />Chapel Hill <br />Durham <br />Mebane <br />732-8181 <br />968-4501 <br />688-7331 <br />336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider endorsement of the proposed building conceptual plan for <br />administrative offices of the Solid Waste Department, <br />BACKGROUND: The University of North Carolina is requiring the Town of Chapel Hill to <br />vacate their current Public Works site on Airport Road at the expiration of the lease on January <br />1, 2007, thereby necessitating the relocation of the County's Solid Waste Department, which is <br />currently housed in a modular building at the same location. The new building is to be sited on <br />Eubanks Road Landfill property, pursuant to the Solid Waste Facilities Master Plan as approved <br />by resolution by the Board in October 2001, Plans far a new administrative building have been <br />included in the enterprise fund's Capital Investment Plan (CIP) since 1996. <br />The Town of Chapel Hill intends to vacate their current facilities by the lease expiration date. <br />This includes dismantling of all existing infrastructure, including stnactures, paving, parking, <br />utilities, etc, and reverting the property back to as near its original condition as practically <br />feasible. The existing Solid Waste Management administration building is located in the center <br />of the Public Works site. Solid Waste currently also piggybacks onto the Chapel Hill Public <br />Works Department's phone and messaging system. <br />The County's Space Needs work group, which includes Commissioners Jacobs and Halkiotis, <br />reviewed the specific needs for this facility during a meeting in early February 2005. The new <br />building is intended to house full time employees, an intern, and the intermittent <br />temporary/volunteer personnel presently located in the existing modular facility. It is also <br />intended to allow the consolidation of all Solid Waste administrative, enforcement, and <br />supervisory personnel in the department, currently housed in two temporary construction trailers <br />and in the parts room of the maintenance building. The construction trailers do not have <br />sanitary facilities and their inhabitants must drive or walk to the crew building for bathroom and <br />other amenities, The building will include expanded meeting room facilities (conceptually, on <br />