HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1974.12.19 - 15023Miscellaneous Resolution 6918 December 19, 1974
By: Mr. Patrick M. Nowak
IN RE: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS COMMITTEE
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
In accordance with Section X, Rule "A" of the Rules for
the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, your Buildings and Grounds
Committee has made its Annual Inspection • of county owned buildings
and grounds; and, is pleased to report that it found the majority
of the county facilities satisfactorily maintained, cleaned and repaired.
The conditions speak well for the program carried out by the employees
of the Department of Facilities and Operations.
During this past year there have been many accomplishments
in the Facilities Capital Improvement Program. Construction on Children's
Village Phase TT, started in June 1973, will be completed by December 1974,
and occupied in January 1975. The cost of this project $4,379,000, is
. being financed out of Revenuing Sharing Funds. Administrative Annex II
Renovation, which furnishes office space for the Planning Commission,
Equalization and Friend of the Court, was 'completed and occupied in
March 1974. The Courthouse Complex marble and roof renovation work was
completed this year; • and, the county filed suits against the contractors,
who built the Courthouse Complex, to recover the cost of the renovation.
The Ground Breaking Ceremony for the new 120 bed Medical Care
Facility, costing $2,660,000, was held in November 1_974. Your Committee.
spent many hours analyzing different feasibility studies in regards to
the type, size and location of the facility. The Medical Care Facility
project is unique in that it is the first design-built concept project
that the county has ever entered into.
A new 60,000 pound per hour steam boiler is being installed at
the Central Heating Building to increase the capacity of the plant to meet
the needs of the expanding facilities on the Service Center. Bids were
approved in February 1974, for a total project cost of $402,125.
Also, major renovations of office space in the Courthouse
Complex were approved and are scheduled for completion by the first
of 1975, at a total cost of $206;000.
• With the vacancy of the Children's Village Reception Center and
Shelter Care Cottage, as the Juvenile Division will be moving into their
new quarters, an Office Space Needs Study was made and an architectural
firm hired to prepare drawings and specifications for the renovation of
the buildings.
With the additional office staff required by the Michigan
Department of Social Services, new quarters had to be found in the
Royal Oak area. The Board of Comfllissioners has approved the Conga Building
and your Committee is presently negotiating a Lease for the space.
Also, this year the Lease for the Community National Bank in the
Courthouse and the Lease for the 52nd District Court, Third Division at
530 Pine Street, in Rochester, were renewed.
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Buildings and Grounds Committee Annual Report 1974
December 19, 1974
Your Committee is presently investigating office space . for the
additional Judges in the 52nd District•Court - first and Third Division
areas; and a site fora new Police Academy.
Special reports were reviewed - a Winter Tree Program which
would provide mature trees for the Service Center; and a central control
system to monitor heating, air condition,' security and fire safety for
the Pontiac Service Center facilities. .
While it would be impractical to know each of the major repairs
and alteration programs- of this Past year, your Committee would like to
report that it has been necessary to carry out a. continuous program of
alterations and repairs to provide adequate functional space for the
county departments and agencies.- The largest of the major
projects were: The Animal Control Division moved into their new quarters
in the Central Services Building; the old Animal Shelter building was
converted to house the Central Laundry's dry cleaning operation;
Alcoholism's central office expansion. was completed at the South Oakland
Health Center; the District Court Probation Department was relocated in
their new offices in the Administrative Annex II building; additional
air conditioning equipment' wasinstalled in the Data Processing Machine
Room at Administrative Annex T and miscellaneous repairs to the Pontiac
Service Center parking lots and roads were completed in the fall.
Also a .number of miscellaneous projects were approved for
construction, but, have not been completed. They are .Handicap Ramp
for the Courthouse Auditorium; replacement of the Underground Steam
Utility Service for Building 2; Hospital Exterior Restoration, miscellaneous
interior repairs and the replacement of the emergency standby electrical
generator and the heating renovation at the Oakland Social Service Building.
A number of projects were reviewed during the year and rejected
for not being financially feasible. There were: a standby emergency
generator for Data Processing, dredging of the pond north of the Mental
Retardation Center, Groveland Office Building renovation and Oakland
Social Service Building site work.
Your Committee continues to see a large task ahead to provide -
• governmental facilities for our growing county. Surplus space in the
eXisting . buildings is being occupied as rapidly as it becomes available.
This year has been a busy year, but your Committee expects the
years ahead to be even busier in order to provide an adequate physical
plant in which to carry out county services.
MR. CHAIRMAN, on behalf of the Buildings and Grounds Committee
I move, that the foregoing report be received and placed on file.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS COMI,IITTEE
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Moved by Nowak supported by Mathews the report be accepted and placed
on file.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
STATE OF
COUNTY OF
having a
MICHIGAN)
OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
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with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, T have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this day of 19,...
Lynn D, Allen ...... OP•••••••4,•• ..Clerk
By Deputy Clerk