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i ' • of those eggs for use in helping to pass bonds for development of other less popular facilities. A slight variation on the first strategy would be to add the funding for the first phase of the Health Department project (approximately $600,000 to remodel the existing juvenile building when vacated) to the $51 million Public Safety bond measure. 5. Upon construction of the Tri-Agency facility, the Corrections Department's administrative offices and field services personnel should be moved out of the work release center and into the Tri-Agency facility, and the vacated space in the work release center should be converted to additional beds. 6. If Phase I of the Health Department project is not included in the Public Service bond measure, the county should separately seek funding for the first phase as soon as possible after the Public Safety measure is approved. The existing juvenile building should be remodeled for the Health Department use as soon as it is vacated by the Juvenile Department. 7. The Public Works relocation of most of its personnel to the Silverton Road site should move forward within the next two to three years. Public Works has separate funding available to finance the development of their proposed new facility, and this move will free up space in the Senator Building to accommodate, on a temporary basis, county non-court departments and agencies which are now located in the courthouse and which may need to be relocated in the ne~ct five years to accommodate more court's space in the courthouse. 8. The county should proceed within the next two years to complete a thorough analysis of the Equitable Building, and should proceed to purchase the same within three years if that proves to be the most cost effective alternative for meeting the space needs of the non-court downtown departments and agencies and if the purchase can be financed PAGE 2 ks j/cd /Co n c 1 us i o ns. 03/ 10/95