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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 1, 2003 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~ '~ <br />SUBJECT: Whiffed Human Services Center Renovation -Progress Report and <br />Request for Authorization for Additional Debt Funding to Complete the Project <br />DEPARTMENT: Public Works <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Purchasing & Central Services <br />Budget <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Attachment 1 - 5/16/03 Public Works INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Director Memo Wilbert McAdoo, extension 2625 <br />Attachment 2 - 7/21/03 Public Works Pam Jones, extension 2650 <br />Director Memo Donna Dean, extension 2151 <br />Attachment 3 - 9/16/03 Change Order TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Summary Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Attachment 4 -WHSC Project Cost Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Summary Durham 688-7331 <br />Attachment 5 -WHSC Building Diagram Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss the status of the Whiffed Human Services Center (WHSC) renovation <br />project and to request authorization for additional debt funding to complete the project. <br />BACKGROUND: Renovations at the Whitted Center have progressed well since the Board last <br />received a written update in July 2003. Work in the "B" Building as well as the Central <br />Recreation Building has been completed. Renovations in the "A" Building are progressing. <br />Basement level HVAC and electrical demolition work is complete and ductwork and lighting <br />installation in the basement level of the building is approximately 95 percent complete. First <br />floor HVAC and electrical demolition work is approximately 98 percent complete and ductwork <br />and lighting installation in the first floor of the building is approximately 50 percent complete. <br />Second floor HVAC and electrical demolition work is approximately 98 percent complete and <br />ductwork and lighting installation in the second floor of the building is scheduled to begin in the <br />next two weeks. <br />As previously reported, over the course of the project, several hidden conditions were <br />uncovered as the ceilings were removed to install the new ductwork. The accompanying <br />memoranda from the County Public Works Director (Attachments 1 and 2) detail the additional <br />work that was required in order to address these items, address life safety issues, as well as to <br />bring the 70-year plus old building into closer compliance with the North Carolina Building Code. <br />While the existing budget for the project has covered the cost of the substantial change orders <br />(Attachment #3) required to address these issues (life safety, structural repairs, fire alarm <br />