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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 6, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. G _ G„ <br />SUBJECT: Southern Orange Senior Center Project Budget <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Cost Estimate from Architect <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, (919) 245-2652 <br />Letter from Architect TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Preliminary Floor Plan Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider establishing a budget to support the facility program for the new <br />Southern Orange Senior Center, being developed in collaboration with the Southern Orange <br />Senior Center Planning Committee. <br />BACKGROUND: For the past several months, the Southern Orange Senior Center Planning <br />Committee, appointed by the County Commissioners, has met to define the program that <br />should be carried out in the new Southern Orange Senior Center. As reflected on the attached <br />preliminary floor plan, the Center will include spaces that will be adaptable to carry out a wide <br />variety of programs, activities and meals. The identified needs dictate that mast of the space <br />should be flexible in order to accommodate as many different activities as possible. The most <br />notable exception is the area depicted as the auditorium on the attached plan. As currently <br />proposed, this area would be designed with a sloped floor, auditorium style seating, complete <br />with the appropriate acoustics and audio systems suitable for performances, recitals, lectures, <br />etc. The auditorium at the current center is used extensively in this manner, and the planning <br />committee felt that awell-designed specialized area for this type of activity should be an integral <br />part of the facility. <br />Further, the architect has met with Department on Aging Staff to ensure the design of adequate <br />staff space to support the Center. The office spaces will accommodate visiting agencies that <br />may be scheduled to provide services at the center, in addition to the space designed for the <br />permanent staff assigned to the facility. <br />The Board will note that the Center also includes a fairly small area that will be designated as <br />clinic space from which visiting clinicians and physicians from UNC Hospitals, the Health <br />Department or others, as may be identified in the future, may provide a variety of screening, <br />assessment and referral services to seniors and their families. Discussions with UNC Hospitals <br />