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beetle kill pine, also known as
blue stain pine.
“They did a good job on the
color,” Miller said. “U of O inside,
OSU on the outside,” he said of
the calm green interior paint and
the bright pops of orange on the
exterior trim.
Outside, the solar panels across
the front of the building form an
awning effect.
“We wanted things simplistic
and industrial,” he said.
In the crew space, two of the
restrooms have showers, and the
building has a mudroom to take
care of soaked rain slickers and
muddy boots.
In addition, each crew member
has a locker and an individual
workspace, a welcome upgrade.
“They can do paperwork, take
phone calls, keep track of orders
and store personal items,” Miller
said. “They’re all really excited
about their offices, and they have
some nice things now. I wanted to
make sure, instead of bringing old
furniture that they had for years,
they got all new furniture and
chairs.”
The maintenance building is an
open space that has an exhaust
system, water sprinklers and heat-
ing, and enough room to store and
work on several full-sized rigs.
“We purposely made it double
deep, based on the size of our
biggest truck,” Miller said. “Even
though it’s only four bays, you
should be able to park like three
pick-ups at each. There should be
plenty of room. It has very high
ceilings. … Well, if you bring in
the dump truck and you have to
lift it, you need the height.”
The facility is equipped to run
for 24 hours a day in the likeli-
hood of a natural disaster.
During the Dec. 4 Florence
City Council meeting, the council
approved Resolution No. 23,
Series 2017, a resolution authoriz-
ing staff to submit an application
for a $108,000 State Homeland
Security Grant for the purchase of
an emergency power generator
and other emergency equipment
for the Public Works Facility. This
is a reimbursement grant with no
match requirement.
“If we are successful in obtain-
ing the grant from the Oregon
Office of Emergency Management
for the emergency power genera-
tor, yard lights and equipment to
outfit the emergency operation
center and training room, this will
go a long way to fully realizing the
potential of the new facility,” the
staff report stated.
Even without the grant, Miller
said there is a disaster plan in
place for the building and the
crews who would likely be on call.
The location on Kingwood
Street factored into the operation
facility’s plan.
“We’ve been working on this
for quite a while,” Miller said.
“We went through a selection
process and looked at a number of
different sites.”
Public Works leases the lot
from Florence Municipal Airport,
which will use the approximately
$36,000 a year for airport opera-
tions.
“Everything on Kingwood
Street, south of 27th down to the
military museum, is lease-only
lots,” Miller said.
Money from those leases, and
the sale of lots at the Pacific View
Business Park, go to Florence’s
airport for its operations.
According to the City of
Florence
Adopted
Biennial
Budget 2017-19, the city awarded
the operations facility construc-
tion contract for $3.13 million in
December 2016.
“The City of Florence is financ-
ing this construction, and has
taken out a loan to do this project
at a great interest rate. The utilities
facilities that operate out of this
pay that back,” Miller said. “We
have plans over the next five years
to fully build out. We have lots of
space needs, and we’ll be able to
do it over time.”
He said the current plan is to
add a stormwater treatment facili-
ty to the lot.
“It will be a mirror image of the
existing maintenance building,
and another $800,000 item.
“We’ve laid it out already, it’s
just a matter of executing it and
getting it built,” Miller said.
The old Public Works building,
989 Spruce St., had “issues,”
Miller said, including only one
working furnace, a leaking roof
and electrical problems.
The building has been around
since the 1950s, and was original-
ly a police station.
“Public Works has always been
at that site. We were in one of the
metal barns for years, which was
essentially a two-office building
with a restroom and crew area.
When the police moved to the
Justice Center, that’s when Public
Works took over the main build-
ing,” Miller said.
Now that Public Works is most-
ly moved out, the old building will
be “patched” and used for tempo-
rary storage during the planned
Florence City Hall remodel, which
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