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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 5, 200:1 <br />Action Agen~da~ <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Lease Extension: 110 S. Churton Street <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Services <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Lease Extension <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, (919) 245-2652 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider extending the lease at 110 S. Churton Street, Hillsborough through <br />June 30, 2004. <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County has leased the building at 110 S. Churton Street since 1993 <br />to house the Human Rights and Relations/Commission for Women Department and the Family <br />Counseling Division of Orange-Person-Chatham Mental Health. <br />Due to program changes of OPC Mental Health, coupled with a significant space allocation at <br />Whiffed for OPC, it appears that OPC can consolidate both the Adult Day Treatment Program <br />and the Family Counseling Program into the space at Whiffed previously occupied by Adult Day <br />Treatment. In order to allow sufficient time to collaborate with the proposed occupants on a <br />floor plan after the Whiffed HVAC project has concluded, it is requested that the lease at the <br />present Family Counseling location be extended through June 30, 2004. <br />The Human Rights and Relations Department occupies the first floor of the leased premises <br />and is proposed to be relocated to the County's 501 W. Franklin Street building in the suite <br />previously occupied by the Visitor's Bureau. Several factors contribute to this recommendation, <br />including the Chapel Hill-Carrboro location better lends itself to serving a larger and more <br />diverse population base with improved access to parking and adjacency to related human <br />services housed at the Skills Development Center. <br />As the Board may recall, the debt service payments for the 501 W. Franklin Street facility are <br />offset by revenues from rent. Although no rent will be assessed directly to the Human Rights <br />and Relations Department, the reduction in rent from the 110 S. Churton Street building will <br />provide a revenue offset and keep the basic premise of the 501 W. Franklin payment plan <br />intact. The Human Rights and Relations Department would be relocated to 501 W. Franklin <br />