Recommend Approval for Elmcrest Park's Community Building 

For the last 5 months, City Council, the Commission, Anoka Ramsey Athletic Association, Northern Lights Traveling Soccer, Staff and the community have been planning in earnest for the park building at Elmcrest Park.  Careful and thoughtful analysis to date has yielded a design that is predicted to serve the community and association effectively, with good utility as well as appropriate aesthetics for many decades.

 

The purpose of this case is to recommend to City Council a not-to-exceed amount from the Park Trust Fund to authorize construction of the park building.

Attached please find:

• Elevation Rendering
• August cost estimate and update from Studio 55 Architects
• Preliminary Plan Sheets (five)

Additional information will be available for the meeting.  

If this project is approved at City Council's September 24th meeting, the intention would be to have the footings and concrete done yet this fall, such that walls and roofing could immediately follow - with construction continuing throughout the winter.  Ideally, the building would be functionally complete for the 2014 spring athletic season. 

 The funding would be from the Park Trust Fund which had a 2013 beginning-year balance of approximately 2.6 million dollars.  The project costs at this time appears to be:

• Construction cost + construction manager + architectural fees @ $636,650
• Septic @ $20,000
• Watermain, repaving and curb and gutter @ $20,000(???)
• Engineering and surveying (if not performed in-house) @ $8,000

 Staff recommends proceeding with the building construction by recommending Commission and City Council approvals at a not-to-exceed cost of $685,000.

 Motion to recommend City Council appropriate a not-to-exceed amount of $685,000 from the Park Trust Fund for Elmcrest Park's community building.