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HEALTH BUILDING (CENTER STREET CAMPUS) <br />A. FINDINGS <br />1. The existing Health Department building is approximately 20,000 square feet too <br />small to accommodate all Health Department operations that should be sited in a central location. <br />As a result, a number of Health Department units are dispersed throughout the community. This <br />degrades efficiency and customer satisfaction and drives up costs. <br />2. The Health Department building is poorly designed and organized to meet the <br />current and future needs of the department. It is energy inefficient and is one of the county's <br />most expensive buildings in terms of operations and maintenance costs. However, the utility of <br />the building could be significantly enhanced by a thorough remodeling. <br />3. The Health Department will need substantial additional space in the near future, <br />not only to accommodate current unmet space needs, but also to make it possible to remodel the <br />existing building without thoroughly disrupting the delivery of essential services. <br />4. If a new Juvenile Facility is built in the short term, approximately 14,000 square <br />feet in the existing juvenile building can be converted for use by the Health Department. Use <br />of this space will substantially reduce or eliminate the need to construct an addition to the Health <br />Department building. <br />B. RECOMMENDATIONS <br />1. Phase I assumes that a new Juvenile Department building is constructed within the <br />next three years. The existing Health Department building and the vacated juvenile offices would <br />then be remodeled to accommodate current Health Department space needs. <br />2. Future space needs can be accommodated, if needed, in Phase II with the <br />construction of up to approximately 29,000 square feet of space at the health building. These <br />PAGE 12 <br />ksj/cd/Facilities.Int 04/07/95 <br />