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MARION COUNTY FACILITIES MASTER PI.AN OPTIONS D(1) AND D(2) Both Plans D(1) and D(2) call for the development of a new building to house the downtown Salem District and Circuit Courts and court-support functions, and vacate the existing Courthouse for other (administrative and office) uses. Plan D(1) assumes development of the proposed Tri-Agency Law Enforcement Facility and the subsequent relocation of the majority of the Sheriffs department from the e~sting courthouse (except for Civil and Court Services. Plan D(2) assumes that the Tri-Agency Law Enforcement Facility is not constructed and that the Sheriff remains at the existing Courthouse. ^ The existing Courthouse totals 104,323 interior square feet, although a portion of that space is consumed by public circulation and buIlding mechanical and electrical systems. County offices and courts occupy 74,982 net square feet (NSF) on the building's six levels, including a cafeteria of 1,815 NSF in the Basement. Assuming that the cafeteria remained in the existing Courthouse as is, avoiding the need to develop another similar space in the new facility, the department-assignable net square footage available in the Courthouse is 73,167 NSF. In addition to the e~dsting space, the County has the capability to "capture" ~ approximately 5,500 net square feet by constructing floor area on the Second Floor mezzanine where it is currently open to the Second floor below. This additional usable space will allow greater flexibility in the assignment of space on the mezzanine level which is currently constrained by only 2,874 square feet of usable area. ^ In Plan D(1), construction of the Tri-P.gency Law Enforcement Facility would satisfy all of the SherifPs department requirements except for the Civil Section (2,001 NSF) and the Court Services (2,818 NSF). These rivo sections must remain at the courts location -- in this case, in the proposed new Courts Building. In Plan D(2), the Sheriff's department would remain at the existing Courthouse except for the Civil Section and Court Services, which would relocate to the new Courts Building. ^ Construction of the new Courts Building and relocation of the courts and support services will not vacate enough space to accommodate growth of the County, termination of existing space leases and disposal of the Senator and Franklin Buildings. In Plan D(1), the total downtown requirements of 215,899 NSF exceed the available 73,167 NSF within the Courthouse by 142,732 NSF -- that is, 34,243 NSF more than the Courts and related services alone require in 2013. Given the need to maintain the integriry of operations, a more logieal division of space would place 113,308 NSF in the new Courts Building and 30,688 NSF in a new office building plus Page 1