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DEC u <br />PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUILDING <br />Commissioner Eggert reviewed the following: <br />mu r� 5 i'AGE 34O <br />TO: <br />DATE: November 30, 1988 FILE: <br />Board of County Commissioners <br />FROM: <br />SUBJECT: Public Health Department <br />Building <br />Carolyn R. Eggert J(REFERENCES: <br />County Commissioner <br />As you are aware, the Public Health Department is in <br />desperate need of clinical space and medical office space. The <br />Primary Care/Public Health Department Building Committee felt the <br />need is too great to wait to do something until a new Health <br />Department Building is finished. <br />As an interim step, we would like to take the $500,000 from <br />the State and purchase the Fika and Cappelen buildings just south <br />of the current Health Department. They would need some <br />remodeling for offices. This would open up the current Health <br />Department to more clinical use. Money for remodeling would come <br />from the Health Department Trust Fund. A local architect would <br />be needed for remodeling plans. Those funds could come from the <br />$50,000 still in the County's Health Department Funds. The <br />purchase of this property would cover needs for the next 5 years <br />or so and give the Health Department about 19,000 square feet. <br />Then a new Health Department Building of 35,000 square feet - <br />probably built on the land designated for it to the north of our <br />Administration Building -would need to be started at a cost of 3} <br />to 4 million dollars. The current Health Department, the Fika, <br />and the Cappelen building would be assets that the County could <br />then use or sell. <br />We request that the Board of County Commissioners approve <br />the concept of purchasing the Fika and Cappelen buildings, <br />authorize appraisals to be made and prices negotiated with the <br />sellers of the buildings. Those negotiated prices are then to be <br />brought to the Board of County Commissioners for final approval <br />to purchase. <br />Dr. Berman came before the Board and testified to the <br />urgency of the Health Department's need for more space. <br />Commissioner Eggert explained that while she would like the <br />Board to approve the concept described so we can move along and <br />determine that the buildings are structurally sound, etc., all <br />this is conditioned on the State approving what we are doing. <br />ON MOTION by Commissioner Eggert, SECONDED by Com- <br />missioner Bird, the Board unanimously approved the <br />90 <br />