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OLD FIRE HALL EVALUATION COMMITTEE MEETING AUGUST 30th, 2017 The committee was provided with last year’s meeting summary and the other background materials. They were asked to make a recommendation on the exterior finish program for the property. The consensus recommendations of the Committee to the City Council are as follows: • Try to match the original appearance of the building as closely as reasonably possible. • The exterior brick surface on the front of the building should be replaced. Best efforts should be made to match the existing brick as closely as possible. (Previous estimates placed that cost at around $85,000) • The remaining three sides of the building should be cleaned (removed loose paint), repair wall cracks, replace cracked block, replaced broken glass block with solid block to eliminate maintenance issue given they do not provide essential lighting for the upper level, make sure roof flashing is in good shape and possibly replace it with tile like originally existed. Repaint three exterior walls. • We should install “old style” lights over doors to more closely approximate how the building originally looked. (See photo attached) They should be LED and red in color. • Flood lights in an older style to generally match those shown between the bays should be used. They should also be LED. Motion detection activation was also suggested. • The overhead doors were felt to be in good shape. At a minimum, they should be painted. Depending on cost and feasibility, the preferred choice would to be “wrap” the existing door panels that could create the “old style door” appearance versus purchasing new doors at an estimated cost of $4,000 to $5,000 per door. • Bollards should be installed in front of the garage doors for protection rather than using the plating on the door frames. They should be painted to match the building. • The chimney on the west side of the building is in poor condition. City should try to eliminate the chimney if the heating system venting can be easily re-routed. • The flag pole on the west side of the building should be cleaned up or repaired. It was not deemed necessary to fly a flag on the pole (or light it if a US Flag were to be flown.) • All metal flashing around the overhead door frames needs to be replaced. There was some discussion if the frames should be wood or metal surface and the group was leaning toward metal. • The Old Fire Hall lettering on the exterior should be replaced and centered on the building. Lighting could be from the flood lights. • There was some talk about removing the grass area on the west side of the building. Bill Dircks pointed out that the water service is in this area and would be exposed if this area was removed. The group felt no changes should be made given that situation. • The service doors should be repainted or replaced, if necessary. • Repair air conditioner bases. They are currently unstable and could damage lines or compressor. • Given the nature of the work, it is likely the total cost of the project will exceed $100,000. With coordination issues between various work items and to ensure bids are received on an “apples to apples” basis, an architect should be retained to prepare specifications for the work to be undertaken.