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44, <br />If time of occupancy is a factor then the Florida Federal Building <br />can be ready to occupy within thirty days compared to the Pocahontas <br />area requiring approximately one -hundred and fifty days. <br />PECOMMENDATIONS: <br />It is requested that the Board instruct staff as to which way they <br />desire to proceed. Also, authorize the proper budget amendment and <br />Chairman to execute the lease. The Budget Amendment will be from General <br />Funds Contingencies. <br />Commissioner Scurlock wished to move approval, but <br />Commissioner Bird noted there is not really a recommendation. <br />Administrator Chandler agreed it wasn't clear in the staff <br />memo. The dollars are quite close, but staff's recommendation <br />quite frankly would be to go with the Florida Federal Building. <br />We have done our best in estimating what the cost of renovation <br />would be in the Pocahontas Building, but there we would not <br />really know until we got into it and that cost could be higher. <br />Commissioner Bird wished to know why they allocated twice as <br />much for operating expense in the Pocahontas Building for the <br />same amount of square footage, and Administrator Chandler <br />explained that utilities among other things would be provided for <br />under the Florida Federal arrangement. <br />MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Bowman, SECONDED by <br />Commissioner Scurlock, to approve Alternative 2 and <br />authorize the Chairman to execute the lease with <br />Henry Flick for space in the Florida Federal Building: <br />Judge Kanarek wished to point out that this request <br />originally came in the form of a 5th non -jury courtroom, and he <br />just wanted to be sure it would be constructed so it could be <br />used for non -jury trials. <br />Chairman Wheeler advised that it will be a multi-purpose <br />room with its primary purpose being jury selection. He believed <br />even a jury trial is possible if the rules can be waived for a <br />room that is not really a courtroom. <br />43 <br />NOV <br />[BOOK 78 `fvr , <br />