Special Board of Aldermen Public Hearing — 12/16/2019 Page 7
So again, we are talking about renovating about 18,300 square feet, that is major renovations to the reception
area, new HVAC systems, an elevator, new lights, fire alarms, sprinklers, new roof over the admin and the
engineering areas. The addition, we figured it is going to take about 12 months, we went through and this is
going to be a common formula that you see for all these buildings, we estimated, we’ve got detailed estimates
as best we could. On the construction hard costs, we put some contingency in there, we figured out what the
architectural and engineering costs would be, GEO-technical engineering, HazMat survey, we put some money
in there. We did not include money in the hard costs, we are hoping in the contingency maybe that could be
covered. But it is important to know that there were some costs that were not included in these estimates and
that is, what do we do with folks while we are renovating for temporary space? What is the definition of the
HazMat remediation or the mold remediation that has to happen? And certainly a structural engineering study
probably should be done on that building. So at the end of the day, we figured it is about, all in, about $5.5
million dollars to renovate that building.
Next we looked at the Street Department and again we only looked at the office component of the Street
Department Building; we weren’t looking at the maintenance and the shop portions of that building. To the left
is the existing drawing that we had for the first floor, that would obviously require some renovations. The
second floor, again we talked to the Department, talked about what programmatically they could use. There
was a multi-purpose room that could be used for beds for those long storms and what have you, some
gathering space, some locker rooms and of course elevator and stair towers are going to be required if you
add a second floor.
In total, the first and second floor would be 10,400 square feet; again you are renovating all the systems, you
are putting new life safety systems in. When you go through the whole process, including contingencies and
architectural, you get down to about $4.2 million dollars to expand and renovate the Street Department Facility,
the office part of that.
Then we looked at the Parks & Recreation Department and again we only looked at the office side of things:
we did not look at the maintenance or the shop pieces of the facilities. That building is kind of in two pieces,
the newer piece is in the purple there, about 1,360 square feet. The 1902 building is about 1,287 square feet.
Our feeling, after going through that, is that that 1902 building should just come down. It does not make a lot
of sense to put money into that building, | am sorry Alderman Caron. Again | am showing you this because we
tried to do as much homework as we can. We tried to get measurements and we tried to figure out what this
space would look like and what would it feel like and what kind of square footage that would mean.
So we assessed that this program would work to help the Park & Recreation Department out. The first floor is
about 1,485 square feet. This is what it would like combined with the existing building on the first floor, excuse
me, that would be the second floor, this is kind of the basement, there’s two access points. So you take down
the 1902 building, you would add a new two story addition which would total 2,900 square feet, you renovate
the existing space, all new systems, life safety, what have you; you get to about $3.192 million dollars.
Finally we looked at the Solid Waste Department. It is about 6,400 square feet and our assessment that it is
best if that building comes down to the ground. You can reuse the footprint, but the building itself has really
used its life and we don’t see the value of trying to rebuild that building. So we took a shot at what it might look
like, again we are not architects | can’t emphasize that enough. We put a program together, interviewing the
Directors and talking to staff and figuring out what the minimum was that they would need. We came up with
this floor plan and the total cost for that is about $3 million dollars. | will emphasize that we looked at the
minimal work that has to be done to get these buildings up and running, there is nothing emphatic, there’s
nothing exciting or architecturally beautiful about any of the things we are proposing here, but they just get
back to useable buildings. What they don’t do, what none of these estimates really address are future growth
or proper programmatic needs; this was kind of the minimum if you will.
So in summary when you add up the four buildings and the work that we think needs to be done there, this is
all in, hard and soft costs, you are almost at $16 million dollars. Immediately we realized that $16 million
dollars is not something that would pass muster here. It doesn’t get you what you need in terms of program, in
terms of future growth.
