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Courthouse Square Security Page -2- concerns. It is also our understanding that there was $70,000 set aside for building security, but that has already been allocated for key cazds and readers on doors. It is unclear to us what additional financial commitment the County is able to make, in order to provide a secure building for county elected officials and employees. I have been conducting meetings with department heads and elected officials or their representatives, to discuss security concerns in their areas. I will compile a report on these and forward it to you and Randy Curtis, to pass at your discretion, to the Building Design Group and Architect. RECOMMENDATION: We feel that the security issues for this building needs to be addressed by a person who has expertise in building security, design and implementation of security systems. We aze not prepared to recommend numbers and placement of closed circuit cameras that should be installed, which doors need to have controlled access, solutions to areas that have higher security needs, especially with the money having already been allocated. A security consultant would be able to provide us with this information and be able to work with the building and design group to implement the security plan for this new building. I have enclosed information from several local (Portland Area) Security Consultants, their availability to assist in the design plan and provide recommendations to the oversight group on the design of the total or partial security system for Courthouse Square, along with their fee schedule and references. This person/group could be hired independently by the architect or construction manager to provide this valuable service. We also feel that there are other issues that will need to be process at a staff level on an ongoing basis. We would like to keep this Building ~ Security Work Group chartered and add/subtract staff contact as the needs change. This group would meet regularly to discuss and plan for implementing security in the new building. Please let me know how you would like us to proceed, to get this issue into the planning process. Thank you for your time and consideration regazding this vital issue. attachment and enclosures cc: Randy curtis Ron Freshour Bob McCune John Shultz