HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - Mail Packet - 03/11/2025 - Memorandum from LeAnn Williams re February 25, 2025 Work Session Summary: Southeast Community CenterRecreation Department
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WORK SESSION MEMORANDUM
Date: March 4, 2025
To: Mayor and City Councilmembers
Through: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
Tyler Marr, Deputy City Manager
Dean Klingner, Community Services Director
From: LeAnn Williams, Director, Recreation
Subject: February 25, 2025 Work Session Summary: Southeast Community Center
BOTTOM LINE
The purpose of this memo is to document the summary of discussion during the February 25,
2025, work session. All Councilmembers were present.
DISCUSSION SUMMARY
At the work session, staff presented four options for scope and budget of the Southeast
Community Center. Each City Councilmember indicated alignment with staff on option 2B to
move forward with. This option includes a full community recreation center, with multiple
recreation spaces, that aligns to the ReCreate: Parks & Recreation Master Plan definition and
identified amenities in a Community Center, as well as the inclusion of licensed childcare.
Option 2B includes the outdoor pool identified in the 2015 ¼-cent Community Capital
Improvement Program (CCIP) ballot and indoor lap lanes, in partnership with Poudre School
District. Option 2B has a project budget up to $80 Million.
Council provided feedback indicated staff should explore options that would allow the lap lanes
to flex into recreational use. Councilmembers specifically asked if there were plans to include a
dive well. Staff responded that the cost of a dive well could be cost prohibitive and will
communicate to the public, per Council feedback, if a dive well can be included. Staff presented
annual operation and maintenance (O&M) cost ranges connected to each facility and project
that this facility will have alignment with current facilities with regards to the revenue generation
and general fund support.
Council asked if all four options would be presented to the community. Staff clarified that the
development of option 2B included significant community input and was based on fulfilling the
2015 ballot measure. Future community engagement will focus on the details and amenity
choices within the limits of the scope of option 2B.
NEXT STEPS
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The project team will begin design development and broader public outreach for option 2B.
Future Council agendas will include approval of the Intergovernmental Agreement with Poudre
Libraries, appropriation of the final budget numbers, and periodic updates on design, schedule
and budget.
FOLLOW-UP ITEMS
Council asked if the general fund subsidy for this facility would be similar to other community
centers that the City owns. Although the City does not currently have a combination outdoor
pool and recreation center, it is anticipated that the general fund subsidy will be similar to those
types of facilities (City Park Pool and Northside Aztlan Center, for example).
Councilmembers expressed interest in, and questioned if, a dive well will be a part of the lap
lanes. Staff will explore how much it will cost to include a dive well as part of the indoor lap
lanes during the design process.
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