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Public Safety/City Hall Project The monthly K-taus Anderson/Tushie Montgomery meeting ~vith city staff was held on May 6, 2003. An update on current issues discussed at this meeting will be presented to the City Council on May 12, 2003. A number of weeks ago the city requested information on the cost to complete the upstairs of the Public Safety Facility so that it could be usable for city or community activities/functions. The minimum improvements, including a functional bathroom, is approximately $93,000. To make the upstairs usable without a bathroom is about $49,000. The quotes for the upstairs work are good for 30 days. The cost to do the work at a later date should not be significantly more. Police Department representatives will be at this City Council meeting to discuss and review options. There are some security issues with opening up this facility to the public. At this time, the building contingency balance for the Public Safety project stands at about $150,000 and we do not expect this number to go down too much lower. Accordingly, some funds will be available for some additional work if desired by the city. The other big expenditure that remains on the horizon is the gun range. The bids received last summer are no longer valid for this work. The bid for the gun range last summer was $220,000. The City Hall "purge" days on April 24 and 25 went very well. A significant amount of paper was recycled and, in general, "old stuff was thrown away". City office staff continues to work on the moving of files from the upstairs at City Hall to the basement at the Utilities building. This will be the permanent storage location for the city archives. Storage shelving has been ordered; the shelving is scheduled to be installed the week of May 12; and the moving of fries is scheduled for May 20 (with help from the STS program). One of the main outside activities being worked on is the parking lot. The exact schedule is not known at this time but it looks like it will take 2-3 weeks for the parking lot to be completed. The existing City Hall parking lot is scheduled to be raised up a few feet and fill material will begin showing up shortly for this part of the project. (The lighting should follow the bituminous work.) Also, work is currently taking place on the curbing of the parking lot for the Public Safety Facility. There will be a significant amount of activities going on in the next few weeks in preparation for the June 26 (approximately) move of the Police Department to the new facility. S:\COUNCIL~Pat\Updates\leg-cityhall-psupdates.doc