Agenda - 09-17-2002 - 8e - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meegng Dab: September 17, 2002 Action Agenda unmake. S-e SUBJECT: Lease Approval of a Modular Unit for Orange Public Transppraton (OPT) Offices DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No Services and Aging ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam Jones, (919)2452652 1. Equipment Lease Agreement Jerry Passmore (919)2452009 2. NCDOT Budget Revision/Amendment TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Request Hillsborough 7324181 3. CTP Grant Application—Facility Chapel Hill 961 Expenses Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227.2031 PURPOSE: To consider approving the rental of a 2,520 square feet(361 modular unit from Acton Mobile Industries. Inc. in which to relocate the Orange Public Transportation (OPT) staff to the Public Works facility, Highway 86N, Hillsborough. BACKGROUND: Over the past fifteen yeam.the Orange Public Transportation (OPT) Program, a division of the Department on Aging, has grown from a 4-vehicle to a 28-vehicle operation. The program has expanded its services from coordinating agency transportation to serving the general public and special populations. House ! at the Whiffed Human Services Canter, the program has out-grown its office space with fourteen full time employees as well as the OPT vehicle parking lot on Hassell Street and Tryon Street. In May 2002, all OPT vehicles were moved to a lot at Motor Pool with the tldvem working out of shared offce apace at the old Public Works Garage in order to reduce the parking congestion at the Whined Center. Further, as the Board is aware, the Department on Aging staff, including OPT staff, have agreed to outpost their programs to other Department on Aging services sites in northern and central Orange throughout the duration of the HVAC replacement project at the Whined Building. This, in tandem with the relocation of the OPC-Adult Day Treatment program, will allow other service units to be moved intact, thereby providing less disruption to the public during the renovation project. Although the relocation of senior programming at the Whitbd Building is temporary,the Public Works facility is more efficient and functional for the OPT program and is intended to be a permanent move. While the State may provide funding in the future for a permanent facility, the Department on Aging/OPT Director and staff have secured funds and identified a rental unit that could be utilized within the next 4560 days at the Public Works site The State has approved operating funds to pay for the rent of a modular building and has reallocated capital funds to pay for the one-time set up expenses of the unit, but was