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F t <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 1, 2002 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. . j <br /> SUBJECT: Lease Approval: Temporary Location for Health Clinic During Whiffed Building <br /> Renovation <br /> DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> Services and Health <br /> Department <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Pam Jones, (919)245-2652 <br /> GE Capital Modular Space Quotation Rosemary Summers, (919) 245-2410 <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 approving a lease for a modular building from GE Capital in which to <br /> relocate the Hillsborough Health Clinic and some Health Department staff during the Whitted <br /> Building HVAC replacement project. <br /> BACKGROUND: The Whitted Building heating, air-conditioning and ventilation system (HVAC) <br /> is currently being replaced. In addition to the HVAC work, the Health Department has garnered <br /> funding to provide renovations to the clinic space as well. The renovation of the clinic is <br /> anticipated for commencement around December 1, 2002 and will be completed within four to <br /> six months. <br /> The Health Department staff explored a number of options to providing clinic services during the <br /> HVAC renovation at the Whitted Building. The most notable options included the following: <br /> 1. Discontinue clinical services in Hillsborough <br /> 2. Move all clinical services to Southern Human Services Center <br /> 3. Operate clinics in another building in Hillsborough (county or leased) <br /> 4. Operate clinics in leased modular buildings on sited on Whiffed property. <br /> Option #1 was determined to be unacceptable to implement. Since moving to an integrated <br /> clinical service model, clinics are now held five days each week in both the Whiffed and <br /> Southern Human Services Center sites. Discontinuing clinical services in Hillsborough would <br /> be an unacceptable hardship on clients who are dependent upon the Health Department for <br /> their health care services. It would further leave a clinical team idle for six months. Clinical <br /> services would be reduced by over 4,800 encounters affecting 2,500 patients. Anticipated <br />