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MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Mayor and City Coun~l Pat Klaers, City Adr~trator April 5, 2004 Lions Park Center Improvements Building improvements in Lions Park Center (LPC) have been discussed at the last two City Council meetings. The City Council requested that this topic be added to the special meeting agenda for April 5, 2004. As such, I requested that the special meeting be moved to LPC so that everyone can walk around the facility and better understand the options that are being considered. HI ST ORY / BACKGROUND City office space at LPC has been a topic of discussion ever since the Lion's Club came for, vard with the building project in fall 2000. (In fact, recreation office space was discussed with the Lion's Club prior to LPC being btrilt when the club approached the city about a partnership in a teen center in 1997. This project eventually became the Boys and Girls Club.) With the LPC project, the Lion's Club made a commitment to put $240,000 into the project which included a kitchen, large meeting room space, office space for City Recreation, and office space for the club. In spring 2001, the city added money to the project to expand the building footprint so that additional City Recreation office space could be created. In addition to this expenditure the city also spent money for office FFE, SAC and WAC, landscaping, engineering site work, and the parking lot. The Lion's Club expenditure was a maximum of $240,000. When this funding was exhausted, the project was ninety nme point something completed and construction work essentially stopped except to get the final occupancy permit. This is likely the main reason why the city could not get all of the needed end of the project corrections accomplished and why now after only txvo years there are a few repairs that are required so that the building is sound, functional, and comfortable. With that being said, I would also like to state that the Lion's Club (and city) project has turned out to be a tremendous community benefit. This project has helped to address a large meeting room space need that existed in the city, has made it easier for the city to invest additional funds for improvements in Lions Park, and ultimately has lead to the expanded use of the park.