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Orange County Space Needs Report ~ 2005 Update <br /> Page 21 of 69 <br /> Department Name : Emergency Management <br /> Project Development Phase : Interim : Tier 1 A ; Long -Term : Tier 2A <br /> Current Location : 911 Center , New Hope Church Road , Chapel Hill <br /> Current Departmental Square Footage : 5 , 700 <br /> Current # Employees : 84 ( includes medical transport personnel ) <br /> Proposed Square Footage : 12 , 365 ( plus 30 % Circulation factor) <br /> Options to accommodate space needs : <br /> • Interim : Relocate the Emergency Management Administrative Staff and other <br /> staff ' as determined by the Department Director a building currently being <br /> considered by County for acquisition . This would allow additional program <br /> space in the existing 9 - 1 - 1 building and ease the overcrowded conditions until a <br /> new facility could be constructed . <br /> As discussed in the Information Systems Department write up , the facility being <br /> considered by the County for acquisition could provide the opportunity to jointly <br /> utilize a suitable area for training and for an Emergency Operating Center ( EOC ) . <br /> • Long -term : Long term space needs for the 9 - 1 - 1 Center would be met by <br /> consolidating all Emergency Management functions , including a new <br /> Communications Center , to a single location at the new proposed county <br /> campus , Current Emergency Management offices were sited to take advantage <br /> of the convergence of telephone services so that phone lines from multiple <br /> carriers would allow the 9 - 1 - 1 system to be established . Those technological <br /> constraints no longer exist , thereby allowing the 9 - 1 - 1 Communications function <br /> to be located in the county without regard to telephone service capabilities . <br /> Disposition of the current building would be determined as the project is <br /> developed . <br /> 21 <br />