Work on new health department to begin before new year
November 3, 2009 9:34:00 AM
Dispatch Staff Report
Officials expect to break ground on construction of a new Lowndes County Health Department facility this year.
The Lowndes County Board of Supervisors Monday voted to award a construction bid for the new facility to Burks Mordecai Builders Inc., in Columbus, the low bidder on the project.
“We’re well within our budget,” said Johnson Bailey Henderson McNeel Architect Joey Henderson.
The 12,300-square-foot health department facility, to be located near the intersection of Lehmberg and Warpath roads in East Columbus, is expected to cost the county $2.4 million. The county previously secured a $600,000 Mississippi Development Authority Community Development Block Grant for the project; the supervisors earlier voted to purchase the property on which the facility will be built for $230,000.
The project will be funded through a portion of the county’s projected $4.8 million in interest accrued from the 2006 sale of Baptist Memorial Hospital–Golden Triangle for $30 million to Baptist; the company previously rented the hospital facilities.
The new health department, which will face Lehmberg Road, will feature about 49 patient and 32 staff parking spaces, an 80-person main waiting room, and two 37-person sub-waiting rooms, according to plans earlier presented by Henderson.
Henderson on Monday said final completion of the project is expected in August.
molly | 11/4/2009 9:26:00 AMmark as inappropriate This is great! I had to pick up a shot record from another county for my daughters daycare at the present location and the condition of this place is horrid. There's NO way i would use these services.
