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<br /> AM.." 41111•11W MR soNMEMMENIMINIONINI
<br /> Four-city senior- center archi it st4 OK'd
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<br /> site.choices,to two, including as , $1( JC" ival debt payment'on the
<br /> GIt , y .r.' ;; :A`: preferred site at The'Anoka County est gate( 4)1.7 million loan to construct
<br /> Regional.Park in Frsdle Mwith a second Vie face'.ty.
<br /> site 1 the Rieo`'Creekr! littrx tort c , et g ` „ '
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<br /> Efforts to develop a Senior citizens County has bffared; re.park site a' u , S 00ii annually for their§"e1Yld
<br /> activity/meeting cent 't 1ttt'.the area cost, • •,.:v• • )1 ms. Additionally, federal and;
<br /> continue to gain moine ihnit`with the bast rveek:the.New,Brigh' City tithe grants pay about a third of the
<br /> recent commitment of up to$10,000 to Council 'informally 'appre its senior program costs. Taking that into
<br /> -.develop architectural plans and cost requested expenditure,but it 1 so only acco'nt, Burns said the amount of new
<br /> ,,estimates for the facility. after�it recommended that t1 money be money that would have to go into senior
<br /> ' All four city councils in the cities used to evaluate both site ,,rather than programs is about $200,000. Split the
<br /> working on the project - New just the Fridley site .s .had been same way the costs of the architect's
<br /> Brighton, Mounds View,Fridley and indicated. study are, the additional""senior
<br /> Spring Lake Park have committed a Burns said reques , for proposals programming costs for cities would be
<br /> portion of the$10,000 based on the total (RFP) were sent ot: last week to a roughly $66,000 for New Brighton;
<br /> senior population of the four cities.New' 'number of architects, ad evaluating,the„ $84,000 for Fridley; $17,000 for Spring
<br /> Brighton, with 33.44-percent of that 'New'Brighton sit 's one of the Lake Park: and $32,000 for Mounds
<br /> ' population, will give $3,344; Mounds ` stipulations in those ,f ;uests..Henoted View. ..:
<br /> View, at 16.11 percent, gives $1,611; that architects have be-u asked to return ,-::.-Following 1992 legislative action.to
<br /> Fridley,with 42 percent,gives$4,200; the RFPs by June 5 lift levy limits on cities, the four cities
<br /> and Spring Lake Park,with 8.45 percent, From the RF s t e task force will could, without legislative approval, add
<br /> gives$845. select an architet to o the work,which those costs to their general obligation
<br /> Up to this point,notes New Brighton ' Burns said wil take from six to eight levy.
<br /> City Manager Dave Childs, the work weeks.Noting -tat all timelines are very
<br /> done by the Senior Center Task Force, ; tentative,he Bait;t':ic task force is eyeing ' - BURNS STRESSED that all the cost
<br /> `' such.as developing lists of amenities for a September 1993 opening of the facility and other,estimates are very preliminary
<br /> the facility as well as possible sites,have itself. now, but will come into better focus
<br /> been done at little cost other than staff once the architect's report is complete.
<br /> time. This is the first purely financial HOWEVER, everyone involved in He also noted,"Whatever we do I think
<br /> commitment the cities have been asked the planning process admits there are a we will have extensive public hearings
<br /> to make and, according to Bill Burns, large number of questions to answer on the subject, probably in all four
<br /> Fridley city manager and chair of the before that could occur. cities" before any final decisions are
<br /> task force,the response has been good. Preliminary cost estimates suggest made. He said approvals from all four
<br /> the facility,as it has been considered up city councils would be the minimum
<br /> BURNS EXPLAINED last week to this point,will rut about$423,000 per requirement before going ahead with the
<br /> • that the organization has narrowed its year to operate. That includes a project• .
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