Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

Paul Cunninghamto make them certified in any shape or form be more costly to the city and in terms of our past performance we have avoided that now we have a state mandate somebody's telling us we have to do this so I'm going to presume that the new fire station that we're talking about and the community center if they're going to meet these standards are going to increase in cost to bring this type of thing in so at that point Ronald Reagan's but verify comes back and the comments that I've heard from a number of my colleagues about how do we ensure after the fact that we're getting the benefit of this program becomes even more important from that standpoint because it is going to cost more when you talk about imposing something on somebody the

Laszlo PalkostaffSo for the general fund section up top, $233.4 million over this five-year period, 50% of that includes the property yard at $63 million, Fire Station 3 at $41 million, and Van Dyke Park at $16 million. So those three projects alone make up 50% of that total amount. So the property yard, as you'll see, is a new project being introduced this year. If you all have visited the property yard, we'll go into more detail about it, but it's one of the oldest buildings that is in desperate need of repair or replacement and renovations. Other major projects include Willard Sherwood, $9 million. dollars has already been a lot of contributions towards that project this would be the final contribution towards that project the police garage is at 8

That's really driving the expenditures, and those first three, again, Van Dyke Park, Fire Station, Property Yard, are about 50% of those expenditures. I think there may be some opportunity for some public-private partnership opportunities here to help reduce some of these expenditures. That's something I'm going to be discussing with the new council because this is a lot, right? There's a lot of expenditures for our city that we're going to have to figure out how to get financed, and we have to be creative in how we get this thing done. For utilities, again, $74.3 million total. About 40% is, for one project, $30.2 million for the Norman Coal plant upgrade. That's the sewage treatment plant from the county.

project here, and that is Fire Station 3 located in our old town. I think that one's a prime also for a public-private partnership because of the existing fire station. in a couple slides here. From major kind of program highlights for specific areas we just talked about, the Fire Station 3, I'm happy to report we did close on the adjacent George Mason property last Friday. That's where the new Fire Station 3 will be located so that will be constructed on that site and then we'll move over our existing fire personnel to that facility and then we'll have to discuss what happens to the existing fire station. development opportunity of city-owned land to help finance Fire Station 3 itself to reduce

the financial impact of that project on the city. But this project, you can see, originally built in 1965. You had some renovations in 1998, but clearly in the older than 60-year-old building, it's time for replacement. It wasn't built to kind of modern-day standards for equipment, so our fire department is really looking for that more modern facility, just like they have with Fire Station 33, to better serve our residents. So Van Dyke Park, this is another old park, 60-plus years old. That's how old the majority of the infrastructure is on that park. That is our main city park. This is a $16 million project to renovate the infrastructure on our flagship park, if you will. There was some planning associated with this.

We try to do our best to adjust for that, but what I will say is that the key drivers, like I said, the 20-80 rule, are those facilities like the Property Yard, Fire Station 3, Van Dyke that are in the earlier part of the CIP. So those again unless we defer those to those years, we don't expect unless we decide to throw the museum on here or the high school and middle school, which I don't recommend. I think that can wait until the 2030s. But that could be the potentially other change in terms of facilities. But green acres again would be replaced by Willard Sherwood. That's already been accounted for. Fire Station 33 relatively new, right? Fire Station 3 is being replaced by this. all of our buildings are being largely addressed or have been addressed there's certainly going to

James Featherthank you looking forward to digging into the details I want to think it stood out a little bit for me this time around when I compare fire station 3 with the property yard we've been talking about fire station 3 it's been on our radar for quite some time number of years that I've I haven't been on as many as mr. Cunningham by far but we've been talking about it for a while the property yard is an interesting one we went from fiscal year 2025 program of a $500,000 feasibility study to 26 talking about many multiples of that is that because the study was done now and the hand has been played or I

have so much upfront cost apparently and then carrying it I understand long-term cost of rehabilitation of the site really is what we're talking about yeah it's a bit of a surprise to come so quickly when we've been anticipating fire station 3 for several years at the kind of levels of expense we're talking the

Speaker 2turkey trot? There is in the City of Fairfax to benefit the fire station