Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

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

The goal is, again, to take advantage of the new Willard Sherwood facility for outdoor programming, existing infrastructure, add additional infrastructure, things like trails, parking infrastructure. We know that's a challenge over there as well, and a lot of different components as well that our Parks and Rec Department is planning for this specific project. Then we mentioned this one, the property yard. This is the biggest driver right now of our capital expenditures, and I would argue one of, if not the most important projects. So many of our services are tied to this building. This building is broken down into multiple components. Most of it's 60 plus years old. Some of it's over 70 years old when it used to be a wastewater treatment facility.

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

Matthew Ricebut we will end up with a very nice new park and that is construction beginning soon so we also talked quite a bit about Van Dyke and also the Willard Sherwood Center and lots of big plans for park facilities and park programs that would either be housed in the new building starting perhaps in about 2028 or new things that would be at the adjacent Van Dyke Park holiday craft show and a couple other things that were minor elements of discussion and prab will have another meeting on December 12th and that will be at the Willard Sherwood excuse me it'll just be at the Sherwood Center on the 12th and that's a joint meeting with the Commission on the Arts thanks this Coleman so