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Update on Design of the New Durham County Youth Home, Project No. DC-001 (30min)
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Date of BOCC Meeting: January 4, 2021
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The Board is requested to receive an update from Moseley Architects regarding the design of the New Durham County Youth Home.
In 1945, the Durham County Youth Home came into existence as a result of an idea of Mamie Dowd Walker, Judge of the City and County Judicial Court. By 1947, the Durham County Youth Home was completed and in operation as the first county facility of this nature in the State of North Carolina.
In 2017, the Board of County Commissioners renewed the County's almost 75-year commitment to keep our children in our own community rather than send them to State-run facilities elsewhere by approving funds for a Youth Home Program and Site Master Plan, which included an update to the 2014 Building Assessment Report. The study identified current and future needs of the Home, and the building assessment results indicated that repairing, upgrading, and expanding the outdated facility is not cost-effective. Copies of the reports have been provided.
This project is the design of a new 36-bed Durham County Youth Home to replace the existing 14-bed facility on the 8.1-acre site currently shared with the Durham County/City Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The new expanded facility is designed to facilitate best practices and accommodate the housing of older juveniles after SB257 Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act (aka "Raise the Age" law) took effect on December 1, 2019. The design follows the standards of the North Carolina Administrative Code 10A NCAC 14J, Rules and Laws Governing the Operations, Surveillance, and Monitoring of Jail Facilities, and the American Correctional Association Standards for Juvenile Detention Facilities. The existing youth detention facility will be demolished after the new facility is occupied. This project will pursue LEED Gold certificatio...
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