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AGENDA
1. Review/recap Steering Committee process and Recommendation 2. Authorization for updated Study
– Court Cases update – Test fit – Updated/Refined costs
C OURTS P ROJECT UPDATE - S TEERING C OMMITTEE MEETING RESULTS 7 J AN - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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C OURTS P ROJECT UPDATE - S TEERING C OMMITTEE MEETING RESULTS 7 J AN 2015 Slide 1 AGENDA 1. Review/recap Steering Committee process and Recommendation 2. Authorization for updated Study Court Cases update Test fit
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Review/recap Steering Committee process and Recommendation
- July 1st joint Board and City Council Meeting established Steering
Committee
- Committee members met multiple times Aug/Sep/Oct
- 10/27/14 Committee members recommended:
- continued focus on the downtown option for the County
- further study the potential of co-locating the City and County General
District Courts at the existing Levy Building site
- the City indicated support for accommodating short-term parking
needs and to study longer-term needs and solutions.
- On December 15, 2014, the City Council:
- voted to support the continuation of the due diligence effort currently
underway for co-locating the General District Courts at the Levy Building and further investigating interim solutions to provide immediate parking space relief to the courts operations;
- adopted a Resolution appropriating $7,435.00 in the City’s Capital
Improvement Program Contingency for one-half of the cost of the update of the General District Courts Feasibility Study; and
- directed City staff to proceed to develop a short and long term parking
availability study for the downtown courts area.
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Authorization for updated 2010 Levy Study
Scope for limited study:
- Program confirmation
- Court Cases update
- 2 alternative design concepts with massing models
- Updated/Refined costs and schedule
- ~ 3 months to complete study update once
commissioned
- Study Cost: $14,870 (county share = $7, 435)
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Interim work
To accommodate delay in planning and start of design request $150k from current approved funding to :
- Provide a modest expansion and space reconfiguration of the Commonwealth’s
Attorney’s Office within the footprint of the existing Courts Annex building
- Accommodate additional storage needs
- Investigate/procure sound system for Circuit court
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Questions/Action
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DOWNTOWN SOLUTION
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Levy Building Concept - Parking Assumes ~ 23 Underground Secure spaces for Judges/Courts Officials
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Levy Building Concept – First Floor Assumes Space would be split between City/County Clerks (More study required) Albco Commonwealth Atty space
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Levy Building Concept – Second Floor One “Court Set”
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Levy Building Concept – Third Floor 2 Medium Trial Court Sets for General District Court (Albco) 1 Medium Trial Court Sets for City 1 Medium Trial Court Sets for Expansion/shared
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Co-Located General District Court Cost Sharing Assumptions
Total Building Gross Square Foot ~ 42,000 @ Study estimate of $526 PSF (which includes Soft Cost, escalation, contingency factors) Albemarle County (~75%) ~$15.5 Mil Court rooms sets + Clerk's Office + Shared Spaces/Uses + ½
- verflow/expansion Court Set
City of Charlottesville (~25%) ~$6.5 Mil 1 Court rooms set + Clerk's Office + Shared Spaces/Uses + ½
- verflow/expansion Court Set