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Receive a presentation on the East-West Wing Renovation Project.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Budget Committee receive a presentation on the East-West Wing Renovation Project.
SUMMARY:
Although the East-West Wing Renovation Project (Project) was a component of the overall Facilities Master Plan approved by the Board of Supervisors in August 2001, and construction documents were produced and finalized in 2006, the Project was not publicly bid. Project funding was redirected and the Project was put on hold. In October 2010, the remaining tenants of the East-West Wing Building (E/W) moved to their assigned locations in the North Wing of the Courthouse. Since that time the E/W has remained vacant. Funding issues and competing capital project priorities since 2009 prevented the Project from moving forward until now.
DISCUSSION:
After the E/W was vacated in 2010, various feasibility studies were conducted and considered for the Government Center Campus for implementing a master plan. Options for the E/W building ranged from keeping the building vacant, finding a joint partnership to lease and renovate the facility, to renovating the building for county use with the ultimate goal of removing the north lawn modular buildings. Renovating the building for county use was determined to be in the best interest of the county.
In 2009, the E/W was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, which required that a Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) be prepared. On May 12, 2015, the Board of Supervisors (BOS) certified the SEIR and on May 14, 2015, the required Notice of Determination was filed with the State.
In January 2013, the BOS approved the Fund 404 Financing Plan which included the Project. In September 2013, the Budget and Capital Improvement Committees supported moving forward with securing architectural programming and pre-design services to assist with determining how future tenants coul...
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