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 | | LON AUSTIN/CENTRAL OREGONIAN | | The Crook County Family Resource Center is now located at the former Crook County Health Department building. |
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By Jason Chaney
Starting Monday, the Crook County Family Resource Center will conduct business from a new location.
The resource center - which is the home of NeighborImpact, Saving Grace, Crook County Commission on Children and Families, the Veterans Services Office, and Crook County Community Coalition - was located on NE 4th Street in the familiar white building covered in painted handprints. Next week they will occupy the health department side of the former Crook County Health Department and Mental Health building across from the courthouse on Court Street.
The Crook County Court decided last month to move to the building to save money for the Commission on Children and Families program. The savings are primarily due to the change from a privately-owned building to a County-owned facility.
"It's going to provide a significant savings budget-wise," said Commission on Children and Families director Brenda Comini.
"It made the difference between having someone work with (Comini) or letting that person go," Crook County Commissioner Ken Fahlgren added. "The program was threatened by losing as much as 30 percent in state funding."
In order to move the resource center to the public building, several repairs were needed.
"We had to start from bottom to top," Fahlgren said. "Most of the rooms needed new carpet. All of them needed new paint. They needed to rebuild walls and build a bathroom that met American Disability Act standards."
However, repairs went smoothly, enabling the move to take place quickly.
"It's gone really well," Fahlgren said of the renovations. "We knew that we had to get something done by July 1." He went on to acknowledge Greg Henshaw and Leroy Gray, saying that they "single-handedly remodeled the building," as well as doing the work for less than the $2,500 limit the County gave them.
Comini agreed that renovations and the subsequent move took relatively little time.
"The whole renovation and move has taken place in six weeks," she said. "It has been a pretty tight timeline." |
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