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Old Animal Center to Be Made Available to Nonprofits, Fire Districts and Law Enforcement
Jefferson County is making the old Table Mountain Animal Center, near Highway 58 and I-70, available to nonprofits for supplies, and law enforcement agencies and fire protection districts for training.
 At the suggestion of Facilities & Construction Management staff, commissioners agreed to allow nonprofit organizations to enter the building to remove materials that they can put to use. Once the nonprofits are done, law enforcement agencies and fire protection groups will be allowed access to the building for use as a training facility. Several agencies, including Wheat Ridge Police and the Fairmount and Pleasant View Fire Departments, have expressed interest.
 Table Mountain Animal Center, now known as Foothills Animal Shelter, vacated the building in August to move into a new, state-of-the-art facility near the Jeffco Fairgrounds at Sixth Avenue and Indiana Street. The old building was built to house the animal center and isn't suitable for other purposes. It has been boarded up and will be demolished within the next eight months, making the land more marketable for sale.
If groups are interested in using the old facility, they can contact Jeffco Facilities & Construction Management staff at (303) 271-5000. For more information about Foothills Animal Shelter, visit www.foothillsanimalshelter.org. |
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BCC Approves Contract for Deer Creek Canyon Road Improvements
Commissioners approved a $391,000 contract with KECI Colorado, Inc., of Sedalia, to widen shoulders and improve irrigation on Deer Creek Canyon Road.
 The project begins at South Owens Street on Deer Creek Canyon Road and extends 1,500 feet west. Workers will widen a two-lane portion of the road to include 4-foot-wide, paved shoulders for bicyclists and install a guardrail where the creek meets the roadway. Workers also will install 350 feet of curb and gutter, 240 feet of concrete pan and other drainage improvements along the north side of the roadway.
Sixty feet east of the western boundary of the project, workers will widen the south side of the roadway for 570 feet. At this location, the project calls for rerouting a portion of the existing irrigation ditch through a concrete channel and then into 450 feet of pipe, which will carry the irrigation water back to the existing irrigation ditch. A gravity retaining wall will be built near the east end of the project to improve sight distance around the curve.
Work is expected to be completed by the end of April 2011.
Funding for the road work will come from the half-cent Southeast Sales Tax. Irrigation-line improvements will come from Jeffco Open Space. The project was approved as part of the 2010 Capital Improvement Project Budget. |
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Jeffco to Make Repairs at Admin & Courts Parking Lots and Laramie Building
Commissioners approved a recommendation from Facilities & Construction Management staff to make $531,000 in repairs to the Laramie Building and parking lots at the Administration & Courts Facility.
Staff said repairs to the structures on the Jeffco Government Campus are "urgent," because if conditions are left to deteriorate further, the cost of repairs will rise.
 The parking lots at the Administration & Courts Facility, which were originally constructed in 1993, are showing cracks, corrosion in the steel elements and columns, and deterioration and damage in expansion joints. Some of the corrosion comes from the magnesium chloride still used by some jurisdictions to de-ice roads that cars track into the Jeffco parking lots. Because of the corrosion, Jeffco stopped using magnesium chloride a few years ago. Repairs for the parking lots are estimated to cost $471,000.
 The Laramie Building was built on an historic clay mine. A recent study identified that past mining activity is causing the foundation at the northeast corner of the building to settle and rotate slightly. Repairs include compaction grouting of the soil and structural repair of precast concrete elements.The cost for the Laramie Building repairs is estimated to be $60,000.
To fund these much-needed repairs to the parking lots and the Laramie Building, Facilities & Construction Management will delay budgeted projects that will replace concrete in front of the Administration & Courts Facility and replace work-management software. |
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