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?<&53l 3|$?s THE TRAINING CENTER was scheduled to be officially purchased hy Brunswick County this week for $1.1 million. County Construction Projects At Various Stages BV BOH IIORNK A number of construction pro jccLs involving the Brunswick County government are at various stages of construction, from nearing completion to not yet started. Two projects?the Brunswick Community College Industrial Training Center at the Leland In dustrial Park and a jail expansion -are just about ready to open. A new wastewater treatment fa cility for the county Government Center at Bolivia is still being re viewed by the state for a permit, but is expected to be completed this vf:<r and the new Department of Social Services building is "pretty much on schedule," for an April 1990 completion date, according to county engineer Robctt Tucker. In other projects, an expansion of the building housing the Operations Services, Solid Waste and Engineer ing departments at the county gov ernment complex is scheduled for an early December competition date, the main road into the Leland Industrial Park is scheduled to be paved within two weeks; a sewer project for the front side of the park is expected to be finished soon; and paving and sewer work for the back side of tlie park are just about ready to proceed. Jail K.xpansion The jail expansion should be completed in 2-3 weeks. Tucker said. The $512,000, 2,700-square foot addition will add 20 cells and 34 bunks, and a dayrootn and exer cise room for female inmates. The 34 additional bunks will increase the jail's capacity to 78, according to Sheriff John Carr Davis. By state law, the jail technically is not supposed to open until the new wastewater treatment facility is ready. Tucker originally thought the two projects would be completed about the same time. But with the state delays in issuing a permit for the wastewater treatment facility, the jail apparently will be complet ed at least two months before the wastewatcr-treatment facility, which will replace the faulty septic tank system now in use. However, Tucker believes the county will lie allowed to open the THE CIASSROOM AREA of the Training Center can he divided into two or three classrooms bv pulling the dividing partitions. jail without having ihc wastewater ircaur.cnt facility completed. "As long as we're showing signs of doing something, 1 don't believe they will prevent lis from occupying the building," he said Monday. Tucker said all deficiencies that the slate ordered corrected a few weeks ni?o have been corrected u -- i . - .1-1 ?.?. Wastewatcr-Treatmcnt Facility When it is completed, the waste water-treatment facility will be a system that uses a spray field to dis pose of treated wastewater. Tucker said. It will be located directly be hind the county government com plex but will be buffered fmni sight by trees and a bcrm, he said. The system will include two la goons, one for 30-day chlorination treatment and the other for storage, before it will be sprayed on about 5 1/2 acres ol nearby wooded proper ty owned by the county. Tucker says the S 160,000 waste water trcauncnt system should last about 10 to 15 years. Operations Services Expansion A 2,800-square-foot addition to the existing building that houses the Operations Services, Solid Waste and Engineering departments should be completed in early De cember, says Dairy Somerset!, di rector of Operations Services. The expansion will enable the county to house two departments - Clean County and the Department of Aging?that are now housed in a building at Supply, as well as pro vide sufficient space lot the Engine ering Department and a conference room for all five departments that will be working out of the building. The construction is budgeted to cost only S80,(XX), because county employees will be doing most of the work, Somerset! said. He said the Ruilding and Grounds Department, which has a carpenter, plumber and electrician in the department, is heading up the project. The county employees work on the building in their spare time, Soiuerseti said. The county employees can han dle a project of this magnitude, "be cause of the si/.e and nature of the constniciion," Somerset! said. He said the county will contract the brick work The original building was con structcd in such a manner for S14,(MH), including the heating sys tem, Somerset! said. After the coun ty completed the building, a con uacting firm estimated the building would cost $75.(XX) to construct without the use of county employ ees, he said. DSS Building A new Department of Social Services Building should be com pleted around its April 19lM) sched tiled date. Tucker said. The 20,000-square-foot building, which is located behind the existing Stx ial Services Building, will cos! about SI.4 million. Tuckcr said he anticipates the Hcaith Department taking over the existing DSS offices once they arc vacatcd, with perhaps some other officcs moving into some of the space. Industrial Park Work Several projects also arc in vari ous stages at the Leland industrial Park, according to Tucker, with the main road into the park scheduled to be paved within the next week or so. The paving, which will be done by liic slate Department of Trans portation, will extend just past the entrance to Exide and is expected to be completed for Exide's grand opening next Friday. A sewer project for the front part of the Industrial Park also is nearing completion. Tucker said. The pro ject is being paid for by Economic Development Grant funds and the county will maintain and operate the system, he said. The county is rcbidding for con struction of a natural gas line, be cause the original bid didn't attract a sufficient number of bidders, Tuckcr said. The county also is prepared to move ahead with paving and sewer improvements on the back side of the park, the part owned by the county. Tucker said, but has to wait until the natural gas bids are in, so it will know how much money it has left to fund the other projects. Rn incvA/irl/ Ta f~^,ffir,inll\/ Ri i\/ Trnminr! Pnnfr>r TUlr WncL L/iuiijmv.i\ !v/ >?! ! ivIUiS/ L/u/ i i uii in iv^ v^ui iiwi llllO Y V CCI\ (Continued From Page 1-A) 1 he first 30 Exilic employees have already received their class room training at the BCC campus during construction of die Training Center, Ms. Jenkins said. They will begin receiving their production ttaining at die Training Center next week, she said. A six-week training period?this time all of it at the Training Center ? is scheduled to begin Sept. 17 for a second group of 30 or more new Exide employees. plans to open limited production Sept. 4 with the first group of 30, Ms. Jenkins said. Exide has announced that it plans to eventually employ 250 people at the 100,000-stjuarc foot plant. the Training Center is a 20,039 square-fool, two-story building de signed to provide space tor class room ami production training for employees and prospective employ ees for existing and newly located county industries. The production assembly area is a 10,1 (X)-si|uare-foot area that en compasses both floors in a single huge room in that half of the build ing. The classroom-training half of the budding includes the following facilities: ?3,60( )-square-foot r I assrnnm. which can be divided into two or three classrooms by sliding parii lions. This room has a total seating/ viewing capacity of 450 and can be divided into three ISO-student "row-sealing" capacity. It includes three overhead transparency projee tors, one slide projector, one color video projector, one VI K, one video camera with tripcxl, six flip chart stands and one table-top com puter. ?One 20-by-30-foot conference room with six folding conference tables, 20 conference chairs, one VC'R/monitor combination and one overhead projector. ?One 20-by-25-foot self-study area with 15 individual study btxiths, three personal computers for CBT training and two moni tor/VCR combinations. ?One 20-by-30-foot media center library with 15 book/video cases, six full-si/c meeting tables and ?S study chairs. ?Six 15-by-12-foot office/prepa ration areas. ?Three 20 by-15-foot meeting rooms with four folding tables and 20 chairs. ?A break area that will seat 50 people. ?A reception area. ?A first-aid station. 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