“Aside from a few hiccups, I think we’ve done exceedingly well,” Hanft told the board at that April meeting.

The board approved the budget amendment, with the $600,000 to come from the agency’s fund balance, which currently holds $1.1 million.

As he walks around an office in disarray, Hanft is passionate about what he believes is the need — not want — for renovating the space.

On its face, he appears to have a point. Desks and other equipment are spread haphazardly throughout the space, some rooms have doors cut into them while other have windows that were once there but are now filled in — thanks to CG Public Health’s new neighbor in the building, the DOT.

In one room, exercise equipment is piled in with little more than a couple of feet between each piece, rendering them essentially unusable.

The planned clinic spaces have no hot and cold running water, much less a sink for clinicians to wash up before an examination.

Accord, the architecture firm that signed on to the project, proposed three phases, but not necessarily distinct – they all tied together.

The first, a complete re-do of the office’s lobby, was the most important to Hanft, and also the most costly at $297,700.