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Item 7.
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| City Council Regular | |
| Date: | 05/23/2022 |
| Title: | Update on the Multi-Generational Community Recreation Center Project. |
| Presented by: | Mike Whitaker, Parks, Recreation & Public Lands Director |
| Department: | Parks/Rec/Public Lands |
| Presentation: | Yes |
| Legal Review | Not Applicable |
RECOMMENDATION
No recommendation will be given at this time.
BACKGROUND (Consistency with Adopted Plans and Policies, if applicable)
The Concept Design Phase for the Billings Multi-generational Community Recreation Center is well underway. The goal of the process is to create and define a multi-generational recreation facility that best reflects the needs of our community, best practices for programming a recreation center, site design, and a defined budget.
The consulting design team has been working in close collaboration with City Administration, Parks and Recreation and a Core Committee of community representatives for past several months on this design process. The process has been inclusive and collaborative to ensure that all ideas are explored and tested. The committee has defined the following primary objectives:
1. The facility must be visionary and make an impact on our community – if we’re going to build it, let’s build it right
2. The facility needs to create a balance of meeting the needs of our local residents while also attracting sports tourism opportunities.
3. The program spaces within the facility need to reflect what the residents will support and what they have defined as the essential unmet needs in our community.
4. The facility should seek to maximize revenue generation.
In order to ensure the process is inclusive and genuinely reflective of our community, the team has reached out to the Billings residents through community engagement, meetings, and a statistically valid public survey. The residents’ input has defined the vision for this recreation center. The statistically valid survey results indicate the most desired spaces with unmet needs in our community:
1. Indoor Family Leisure Activity Pool
2. Indoor Exercise / Lap Swimming Pool
3. Fitness Spaces (open fitness and group exercise studios)
4. Gymnasium – Court Sports
5. Indoor Walk/Jog track
6. Indoor Ice Skating Rink
The feedback received has been incredibly positive and indicative of the strong desire for a recreation center in Billings. Using all these aspects of participation allowed the Design Team to glean the right combination of information in a creative fashion to identify the true needs of the future Multi-generational Community Recreation Center. The team is now in the process of consolidating the Core Team and community input to shape the design of the facility. The primary goals over the next 6 weeks are to focus further developing the following key items:
1. Facility design, architectural character, and site configuration
2. Capital construction budget
3. Operational Pro-Forma to define cost recovery
On May 23rd representatives for the Design Team and Core Team will present an update on the process to the Billings City Council.
The consulting design team has been working in close collaboration with City Administration, Parks and Recreation and a Core Committee of community representatives for past several months on this design process. The process has been inclusive and collaborative to ensure that all ideas are explored and tested. The committee has defined the following primary objectives:
1. The facility must be visionary and make an impact on our community – if we’re going to build it, let’s build it right
2. The facility needs to create a balance of meeting the needs of our local residents while also attracting sports tourism opportunities.
3. The program spaces within the facility need to reflect what the residents will support and what they have defined as the essential unmet needs in our community.
4. The facility should seek to maximize revenue generation.
In order to ensure the process is inclusive and genuinely reflective of our community, the team has reached out to the Billings residents through community engagement, meetings, and a statistically valid public survey. The residents’ input has defined the vision for this recreation center. The statistically valid survey results indicate the most desired spaces with unmet needs in our community:
1. Indoor Family Leisure Activity Pool
2. Indoor Exercise / Lap Swimming Pool
3. Fitness Spaces (open fitness and group exercise studios)
4. Gymnasium – Court Sports
5. Indoor Walk/Jog track
6. Indoor Ice Skating Rink
The feedback received has been incredibly positive and indicative of the strong desire for a recreation center in Billings. Using all these aspects of participation allowed the Design Team to glean the right combination of information in a creative fashion to identify the true needs of the future Multi-generational Community Recreation Center. The team is now in the process of consolidating the Core Team and community input to shape the design of the facility. The primary goals over the next 6 weeks are to focus further developing the following key items:
1. Facility design, architectural character, and site configuration
2. Capital construction budget
3. Operational Pro-Forma to define cost recovery
On May 23rd representatives for the Design Team and Core Team will present an update on the process to the Billings City Council.
ALTERNATIVES
N/A
FISCAL EFFECTS
Council will be updated on the preliminary estimate of the facility. Also, the Pro Forma for operations will be discussed.