Cataraqui Conservation and Frontenac County partner on joint administrative facility building project

Cataraqui Conservation and Frontenac County have agreed to a plan to share joint administrative facilities in an expanded and fully renovated building, now under construction at 2069 Battersea Rd. in Glenburnie.

“With this new partnership, Frontenac County and Cataraqui Conservation staff, councillors, and board members will have access to badly needed modern and energy-efficient offices and workspaces,” says Frontenac County Warden, Denis Doyle. “It’s a way for our two organizations to collaborate and to share some costs and resources while providing the most efficient delivery of services possible to our clients and constituents. Sharing meeting rooms and entrances has the added benefit of lowering our overall carbon footprint.”

“Cataraqui Conservation has long outgrown our administrative building,” says Cataraqui Conservation Board Chair, Paul McAuley. “By working together with our Frontenac County colleagues, we will better equip staff for the future while saving valuable financial resources for the increasingly critical work of environmental protection and conservation.”

The Cataraqui Conservation administrative building, now in use at the Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area off Perth Rd in Glenburnie, was built in 1974. It is inadequate for Cataraqui Conservation needs and requires structural repairs. The Frontenac County administrative offices at 2069 Battersea Rd. includes a lightly renovated century farmhouse and is similarly inadequate for its purpose. To repair and renovate both administrative buildings would be much more expensive and less efficient than combining resources to build and share a single new, modern building with flexible, collaborative space to meet the needs of both organizations.

Construction has already begun. The project is expected to take a little more than a year to complete at a cost of $4.5 million.