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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1971.11.18 - 162375870 Miscellaneous Resolution November 18, 1971 BY: PLANNING & BUILDING COMMITTEE - Mr. Harrison IN RE: ANNUAL REPORT OF PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: In accordance with Section 7 of Rule IV of the Bylaws, your Planning and Building Committee has made its annual inspection of county owned buildings and grounds. Your Committee is pleased to report that it found the county facilities satisfactorily maintained, cleaned and repaired. The conditions speak well of the program carried out by the employees and the staff of the Board of Auditors Facilities and Operations Divisions. During this past year there have been many accomplishments in the Facilities' Capital Improvement Program. Construction on the new Public Works Building was completed January 1971, providing facilities for the Drain Commission, Department of Public Works and the Board of Auditors' Facilities and Operations Department. Other projects completed this past year include the Sheriff's Trusty Camp, the Utility Tunnel for the new Mental Retarda- tion Center and Phase III of the new Underground Electrical Distribution System. In October of 19 71 the first feeder of this new 13,200 volt electrical system was energized. Construction has progressed well on the new Law Enforcement - Jail Complex which is now scheduled for completion on the contract date of June 1972. Construction of the new Mental Retardation Center began in the Fall of 1970 and occupancy is expected in January 1972. Federal grants for this project now total $962,000. The Youth Activities Center, at Springfield-Oaks Park in Davisburg, went under construction in May 1971 and will be completed in December of this year. The Facilities and Operations Department has been providing services to your Airport Committee and has managed their Airport Construction Programs. A federal grant of $1,084,000 has been received for the Oakland-Pontiac Airport for the acquisition of land and construction of the parallel runway, extension of the terminal ramp and site clearance for the Instrument Landing System. Master Plans have also been completed for all utility systems and roads at that Airport. Revised Master Plans are being prepared for Oakland-Orion Airport. At the time of this Report final plans and specifications are being prepared for Phase II of Children's Village for which we have received a federal design grant of $88,000. This year your Board authorized the purchase of the former Pontiac Administration Building and presently has under consideration retaining an architect for the preparation of the necessary plans and specifications to convert the building for Social Services uses. While it would be impractical to note each of the major repair 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 to provide adequate functional space for the county depart- ments to carry out their governmental services. Surplus space in the existing buildings is nonexistant. The largest of the major building repairs is presently being made to the exterior marble facade on the Courthouse Complex. In an effort to reduce major facility breakdowns and repairs, an improved Preventive Maintenance Program has been instituted which should hold down the frequency and cost of building repairs over the future years. The Service Center grounds have given a campus like environment for county government. Landscaping has been completed at the Public Works Building and the new South Parking Lot at the Courthouse this year, and plans have been prepared for the landscaping of the Law Enforcement- Jail Complex and the Mental Retardation Center. Planting of these facilities will begin in the Spring of 1972. Your Committee continues to see a large task ahead to provide governmental facilities for our growing county. Today the county's buildings have 990,000 square feet of floor space. In 1972 an additional 309,600 square feet are being added in the Law Enforcement - Jail Complex, the Mental Retardation Center and the new Social Services Building in Pontiac. By 1973 in accordance with the Capital Improvement Program the construction of Children's Village Phase II, South Oakland Office Building and the Health Center Addition will bring the total square footage of county facilities to almost 1,500,000 square feet. This year has been a busy year but your Committee expects the years ahead to be even busier years in order to provide an adequate physical plant in which to carry out county services. The Planning and Building Committee, by Charlie J. Harrison, Jr., moves that the foregoing Report be received and placed on file. PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE Moved by Harrison supported by Daly the report be received and placed on file. A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.