Waukesha County likely to spare Moor Downs Golf Course
Committees to choose new site for health and human services building
Waukesha - Moor Downs Golf Course would be largely spared under a staff-recommended plan for the location of a $36.7 million Waukesha County health and human services building.
Three County Board committees will meet jointly Monday to consider pinpointing a location for the planned building. The existing building sits in the middle of the county's nine-hole Moor Downs course. In the past, discussions about construction on the county government campus have raised citizen concerns that the golf course would be eliminated or diminished.
Under the staff recommendation for the new building, the golf course would be affected "in a very minor way," Public Works Director Allison Bussler said. The men's tee on the fifth hole would have to be moved and shortened, she said.
The staff is recommending that the new building be located on the southeast corner of Riverview Ave. and the entrance road to the Health and Human Services office building - across Riverview Ave. from the juvenile center.
The Moor Downs maintenance building on that site would have to be moved under the plan.
The County Board's Executive, Public Works, and Health and Human Services committees will meet at 8:30 a.m. Monday in Room 350 of the Courthouse to act on the recommendation. County Board action could come at its July 27 meeting.
Bussler said six different locations for the building were studied - on all sides of the current building and on the northwest side of Moreland Blvd. and Airport Road, next to the Mental Health Center.
The new building would consolidate operations in the Health and Human Services office building, including Veterans' Services and the Aging and Disability Resource Center, along with Public Health Division operations in a separate building at Moreland and Riverview.
The county's capital budget includes $250,000 to study the project this year. Design work is planned for next year, and construction would occur in the following three years.
Bussler said the southeast site was recommended because human services workers make about 80 trips a day to the juvenile center, so a close location was key. The site was also closest to existing utilities, preserved existing parking and provided suitable soils.
Further study can't go on, she said, until a definite site is selected.
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