MIN 09-08-20 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

questions at a future meeting. At the first meeting of the month on October 5', we anticipate a final committee meeting prior to that session to finalize whatever priorities get support from Council and then be prepared that night for consideration of the group of Council priorities, be they many or few,for potential adoption that night. If we hold to that schedule, as we have done in previous years, it allows the administration time to incorporate them into the budget book. We traditionally receive that budget book in November and deliberate throughout December for adoption before the end of the calendar year. I'd like to thank all the Councilmembers for their thoughtfulness and for listening to members of the public. Councilmember Bullock made a motion, seconded by President O'Malley to receive and file the oral report. A roll call vote was taken as follows: Yeas —Bullock, Kepple, Littten Neff, O'Malley, Rader, Shachner Nays —None Motion passed. The oral report was received and filed. 2. Housing, Planning & Development Committee report regarding meeting held September 8, 2020. (to be provided) Councilmember Shachner delivered the following oral report: We met today to discuss Resolution 2020-26, which is a resolution that would provide the Director ofPublic Works the authority to enter into a design build contract for improvements made to Cove Church to turn it into a intergenerational community center. The amount is not to exceed$4.2 million dollars with Infinity Construction Company. The mayor shared with us that this is a project that is near and dear to her heart. Back in February she went down to Columbus to try to secure additional funding for the project. Originally we met back in April about this project because the administration wanted to put a pause on it due to the COVID- 19 crisis and see how the city's financials would be affected. We have a better idea of where we stand and that we are in a good enough place to move forward with this project. Human Services Director Gelsomino did discuss with us why this is vitally necessary for our community. She noted that Senior Services have been moved around to building after building and that the building its in right now is in pretty rough shape. The project itself is related to the health and wellness of all of our residents. It not only allows for Human Services to be in one place to allow for further collaboration, but also be an intergenerational facility and allows for more contact between social spheres and enables the building of relationships. This project is only limited by our imagination and our resources. We spoke with Allison Hennie regarding the design build process. Two members of Council were on the committee that evaluated the applicants that sought to do this project. President Dan O'Malley and Vice President Litten served on that committee. If the design process moves forward in the spring, we could be looking at Human Services moving in to