City Council Work Session and Regular Meeting

Brooke Hardenstaffterminating and that is what has occurred to advance the project to the current final stage of design. The agreement also covers the construction manager at risk form of construction procurement and the guaranteed maximum price for the project. Ownership and use is covered in the agreement. The city does not pay for the property and will have a 99-year lease with automatic renewals. The county retains ownership of the property, but the city will have indefinite use without acquisition costs. The agreement specifies that an additional agreement that covers ongoing operations and maintenance is to be prepared, and an administrative committee to provide building governance is to be formed. As I mentioned, we'll go in greater detail on design as well as the

James PattersonThe site permit was submitted roughly a month ago. And the building plans are supposed to be submitted this Friday. So we're at the end of the design, going through the permitting. The plan is to award construction. And we're using a C-MAR construction manager at risk procurement method, which you bring the contractor, the general contractor on during, at the end of schematic design. And they work with us hand in glove to kind of build in constructability and value engineering as we go through the process. It's been a very successful partnership up to this point. They actually bid out the project to the HVAC, the plumbing, the site, the earthwork folks, and that will happen towards the end of this year, this calendar year.

Brooke HardenstaffOkay. Okay and to wrap up, next steps for City Council's consideration are approval of the proposed FY26 capital improvement program. This will be the final allocation for this project. Moving forward into this summer and this fall will be a work session and a public hearing on the land use applications that have been filed and that would be typical to what the council is used to seeing with any type of land use application there be a staff planner that has reviewed the project and talk about traffic and site design and impacts and all of those sorts of things with a public hearing following thereafter as was mentioned earlier the project is proceeding under the construction manager at risk approach and so as part of finalization of the budget