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5 <br /> <br />Commissioner Dorosin reiterated that nothing the Board might cut from CIP would 1 <br />realize any savings in this year’s operating budget in 20-21. He said if the Board does want to 2 <br />realize savings to avoid a tax increase, then any cuts would need to come from the operating 3 <br />budget. 4 <br />Bonnie Hammersley said yes. 5 <br />Travis Myren resumed the PowerPoint presentation: 6 <br /> 7 <br />FY2020-21 Recommended County Projects 8 <br />• Climate Change Mitigation Projects - $478,657 (p. 27) 9 <br />o Established in FY2019-20 10 <br />o Dedicated Quarter Cent of Property Tax Annually 11 <br />o Funds Transferred from the General Fund into Capital Project to Preserve Unspent 12 <br />Funding from Prior Year 13 <br />o Applications for 2021 Projects Available in May 2020 14 <br /> 15 <br />FY2020-21 Recommended County Projects 16 <br />• County Facility Master Plan for Hillsborough Sites $300,000 (p. 29) 17 <br />o Northern County Campus to Open in 2021 18 <br /> Detention Center 19 <br /> Environment and Agricultural Center 20 <br /> Parks Operation Base 21 <br />o Opportunity to Reuse or Repurpose Hillsborough Sites 22 <br />o Evaluation of Office Space Needs and Current Vulnerabilities 23 <br />o Recommendations to Most Efficiently Use County Real Estate Assets in 24 <br />Hillsborough Area 25 <br /> 26 <br />Orange County Real Estate in Hillsborough Township (map) 27 <br /> 28 <br />Commissioner Dorosin asked if this is something that can be done in house. 29 <br />Travis Myren said no, not currently. 30 <br />Commissioner Price asked if there is a timeline. 31 <br />Travis Myren said the sites will be available in 2020-2021, and it depends on how 32 <br />quickly the repurposed buildings are needed. He said it could be delayed a year, but staff does 33 <br />not want sites to sit vacant. 34 <br />Commissioner Price asked if staff is considering hiring more than an architect. 35 <br />Travis Myren said most architectural firms have greater capacity in their staffing, so this 36 <br />is likely all that will be hired at this time. 37 <br />Commissioner Price asked if the architect would provide certain information. 38 <br />Travis Myren said it would not be bid documents, but an architect would provide details 39 <br />of square footage, a good analysis of function locations, conceptual ideas, etc. He resumed 40 <br />the PowerPoint presentation: 41 <br /> 42 <br />FY2020-21 Recommended County Projects 43 <br />• Facility Safety & Accessibility - $164,100 44 <br /> Decrease of $360,900 from FY2019-20 45 <br />o Countywide Accessibility Projects - $25,000 46 <br />o Animal Services Automated Access Doors - $24,000 47 <br />o Central Recreation Fire Alarm System Upgrade - $76,000 48 <br />o District Attorney Facility Security Cameras - $3,500 49 <br />o Board of Elections Building Cameras and Card Access - $12,500 50