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Capital Project Amendment No. 19CPA0000016 and Budget Ordinance Amendment No. 19BCC000043- Appropriating $225,760 of Debt Service Fund fund balance and transferring the funding to the Downtown Parking Deck(s) Capital Project and Authorize the Execution of Architectural Services Agreement with Little Diversified Architectural Consulting Ltd. for the Programming Phase of the Architectural Design Services for the Structured Parking at Two Downtown Sites (300 and 500 Blocks of East Main St.) Project No. 4730DC138
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Date of BOCC Meeting: April 8, 2019
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The Board is requested to approve the Capital Project Amendment No. 19CPA000016 and Budget Ordinance Amendment No. 19BCC000043 appropriating $225,760 of Debt Service Fund fund balance and transferring it to the Downtown Parking Deck(s) Capital Project and to authorize the County Manager to enter into a contract with Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, Ltd. (Little) of Durham to provide architectural services for the programming phase of the Structured Parking at the (2) Downtown Sites, located at the 300 and 500 Block of East Main Street, Durham, in the amount of $215,760 plus reimbursable expenses in the amount of $10,000 thus totaling a not to exceed amount of $225,760 (See Attachment 1, Pages 1-19).
Durham County is seeking to re-develop two (2) County-owned sites just east of the downtown core. A contract was executed on June 29, 2017 with the UNC School of Government's Development Finance Initiative (DFI) for a multi-phase pre-development process for the 300 and 500 blocks of East Main St. Over the past several months, DFI has held numerous meetings with the County and community stakeholders to develop draft Guiding Public Interests to facilitate a vision and preliminary programming scope for these two sites based on the input received during these listening and feedback sessions. The BOCC adopted conceptual Plan B which maximized affordabl...
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