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building when vacated, and the remodeling of the esisting H`ealth Department building. 4. The county may find it appropriate to submit these three projects (totalling approximately ~53 million) to the voters in a single package. This would facilitate getting under way with all our at the earliest possible time. On the other hand, the county would be putting all of its public safety and health "eggs" in one basket, where it might want to ' reserve some of those eggs for use in helping to pass bonds for development of other less popular facilities. 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. Phase II of the Health D~artment project, involvin~ the addition of up to ~9 OUO square feet of new space to the existin~ Health Department building, should occur onlv if and when the department out~rows the remodeled Health Department building and the juvenile building provided for it during Phase I. 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 permit the department to deliver services more effectivelv and will free up space in the Senator Building to accommodate, on a temporary basis, counry non-court departments and agencies which are now located in the courthouse and which may need to be relocated in the next five years to accommodate more court's space in the courthouse. 8. The county should proceed within the ne~ct six months to complete a thorough analysis of the Equitable Building, and should proceed to purchase the same within three PAGE 31 4ci/r~i/F~rilitiP.C.TTI[ n3/1Rf95