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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes April 8, 2003 Page 7 16,000 square foot building. Mr. Archambault mentioned that this is just preliminary and so 2 were the costs. He stated that the property address would be 3501/3505 Silver Lake Road. He 3 stated that this recommended site consists of two private homes and storage in the back. Mr. 4 Archambault indicated the use of this site would give the city a chance to get rid of an industrial 5 site in a residential neighborhood and clean up could be done. Mr. Archambault added that the 6 site lines are excellent from this property. 7 8 Mr. Archambault stated that the task for recommends a renovation of the public works site. He 9 stated the new proposed size would be30,000 square feet. He noted the administrative portion 10 would be removed. 11 12 Mr. Archambault stated the cost estimate would be $6-7 million for both facilities; this 13 compares to the $5.5 million estimate given in 2000 for just the public works building. He stated 14 that this is just preliminary and can be adjusted according to a desired budget. 15 16 Mr. Archambault stated that the funding mechanism recommended would be revenue bonds. He 17 noted the preliminary findings for proceeding at this time include: construction costs being 18 extremely low, bond rates are good, willing seller for new site and willing buyer for existing site. 19 He then showed a property tax cost impact chart. Mr. Archambault reviewed the next steps the 20 task force would take are to review the fire station preliminary plans and to study options for the 21 public works building. He announced a final open house would be held on April 22, 2003. Mr. Archambault noted a final group meeting would be held on May 6, 2003 with the final recommendation made to Council on May 13, 2003. Mr. Archambault thanked the Council for 24 their time and asked for comments. 25 26 Mayor Hodson asked if there were any questions at this time. 27 28 Councilmember Sparks asked how significant the concern was about the level of services. Mr. 29 Archambault responded that they had two or three people show up at a meeting asking why the 30 City even needs a fire department and asked questions that they didn't have the answers to. He 31 stated the task force referred the questions to staff. Mr. Archambault noted they invited public 32 comment at their meetings and presented answers to questions. 33 34 Councilmember Sparks mentioned that she stopped in at the last meeting and was impressed by 35 the level of detail and concern. She stated that she was glad to see the rating and how close it 36 was between the building sites. She asked Mr. Archambault to talk about how close it was 37 between the top sites for the fire station. Mr. Archambault explained why they did the rating and 38 that they would welcome any analysis of the information by the Council. 39 40 Mayor Hodson asked what the top four sites were. Mr. Archambault responded that the top site 41 was the Christen property, second was the tennis courts, third was American Monarch and fourth 42 was the public works site. He stated they didn't look at any of the sites being free, but 43 considered all of them with an acquisition cost. Mr. Archambault went over the negatives issues 16 that were considered for each site.