09.02 Maintenance Facility Schematic Design

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As previously discussed, the salt storage fabric arch facility was being handled by the City. It would most likely be a design-build proprietary type of facility. However, we understand that the foundation and floor will need to be designed by us. Our scope of work said that we would put together a cost estimate after this second Core Team meeting. See the attached cost estimate. Since we had yet to complete it, the Core Team members did not see or discuss this. As some on the Core Team said at the meeting, and I am paraphrasing, 'it will be what it will be', but we need to have an estimate to review different ways of financing this facility. We are still right around the $1.4 million estimate from the Study. Remember, from a January 27 schedule presented to the City Council on several public works projects, we should have been done with both the Schematic and Final Design by the end of June. We are obviously not going to make that, but we believe we can catch up so that construction can still occur in 2018. Council Action Requested: Council motion approving the following four recommendations. RECOMMENDATION No. 1: The Core Team recommends the City Council approves this building schematic. The size is relatively modest, meets today's needs, but also has enough room for potential future equipment (i.e. it is anticipated it will not need to be expanded for quite a few years). RECOlVIlVIENDATION No. 2: The Core Team recommends the City Council approve placing this Maintenance / Public Works facility on a roughly 4 acre parcel on existing City property in the southeast corner of Derksen Road and Morehouse Drive. The City already owns the land. There is City water and sanitary sewer adjacent at the Morehouse and Derksen intersection (while it is a dead-end right now, a City watermain will be helpful for the required fire sprinkler needs of this