City Council Work Session

James Pattersonstaffrefresh on a few things and feel free to interrupt me as I as I'm going through this. Basically, bird's-eye view, the site we're developing is about 2.4 acres that everything fits in there very tightly. It's a little over a hundred thousand square foot building. You're seeing in blue, those are the solar panels that will sit on top. This area right here is a rooftop amenity space associated with senior center and a little amenity space here that will be for the county's infant and toddler connection program. We are seeking to achieve LEED Gold certification for the building, so we have a lot of sustainability measures that are going. You can see here this is the connecting bridge on the second level, which connects the main level of the existing Sherwood

But then you come into the second floor, or you can go up an open stairway to the senior center. Or the seniors can also go this way to an elevator to the senior center. And again, then you have the elevator track, the locker rooms, the fitness, the fitness classroom, and the admin area. This is the third level. and the building will look like a two-story but we'll have a three-story but the third story is set back so you won't necessarily see this from the ground but this is a senior center which is very similar to what's at Green Acres now in terms of space yeah the elevators here you come across right into the senior center there's a check-in desk two offices a large gathering area here a

smaller more intimate gathering area here a demonstration a full demonstration kitchen classroom here and then two classrooms associated with a senior center but are also a multi-purpose located here and then the rooftop amenity space and this is a nice feature that I should have pointed out in the elevation but at some landscaping here that kind of softens that edge of the building and also create some stand back from the edge so you're not peering over the edge of the building. The Performing Arts Center and I want to break this into because part of the modifications to the Sherwood Center are what I call base building which happens whether you decide to do the performing arts options or not and then parts of it are the option. So the base building component

So as you come through the Sherwood, so if you come in the Senior Center and you want to go to this third floor senior center the way you navigate that as you come here there's stairs here and there's a ramp here and I believe the elevation difference is three to four feet as you come up this ramp and then to go all the way up to the third floor you can navigate this open stairway to get to the third floor or you walk around the corner here to get to this elevator that goes up to the third floor

the other and the other Texas a senior center the other ways you park in the garage you basically go up this double set of elevators and that has a landing on each floor including the third floor right across from the senior center

Thomas Rossright but if there's an obvious defect or something went wrong before it should have there would be a way of recovering the car or having that replaced the seniors will be very happy I know to hear that this will be similar to the size of the greens at the senior center of Green Acres I have the privilege of serving as the because of my age and seniority I guess because of my serve on that group and they'll be very excited I know to hear that they're gonna have the same space the option for the performance Arts Center that you presented and maybe I missed this in the presentation but are we talking also about space for equipment storage and for all sorts of things that go with I've heard consistently over the years the need for our arts groups and our arts organizations,

Stephanie Kupkastaffthe senior center, the

Stacy Summerfieldstaffdemonstration kitchen, the two classrooms, those would all be under city purview only. I think as, and this is, of course, we're in preliminary conversations. But as we've discussed it so far, we would want to program every inch of the space as much as we can, all of the hours that were open. so we really see the patio being a senior space during the day when the senior center is open using it prior to the senior center opening for like a morning yoga class to do programming in the evening potential rentals a lot of our classes would be in these two classrooms upstairs we utilize the kitchen for classes as well during the summer or tiny chefs classes the senior center would be utilized as the senior center as it is right now during the

hours the senior center operates from 8 a.m. to right now 4 p.m. and then post that time in the evening we would use it for programs different events so it's all multi-use space especially on the first floor those floor four classrooms that you see so we do have the tiny school the city's preschool program but It would also be used for before and after school programs for Daniel's Run. It would be utilized for summer camp in the summer. It would be utilized in the evening for kids' classes and programs like our I-Code classes. So we envision utilizing every inch of the space that we have. So all the spaces that James highlighted, the fitness center, the fitness classroom, track, gym, our classrooms downstairs, those are all under city control.

Thomas RossYES UM THANK YOU AND THANK YOU important to put it in the context that that cost of operation is not taking into account any cost recovery, fees, charges, other kinds of things. I know from my own experience, the county has a very active number of recreation centers throughout the county. I think the original intent on that was to make them fully operational in terms of cost through fees, charges, lessons, that sort of thing. I don't know that they've made that mark. I think they're far short of that, and the reality is there would have to be some cost to the city in terms of operation. And I would also throw in that not only with some cost recovery of fees and charges for programs, I assume there would be some staff costs that are already being paid for, for example, a senior center, Green Acres.