Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Approve the Recommendation to Relocate the New Public Works Building to the Cameo Site.
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Submitted By: Colt Schwerdt, Public Works Director
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of a high-performing city government organization.
Executive Summary (General Business): The relocation of the New Public Works Building to the Cameo site will consolidate the City’s Public Works operations into a hurricane-rated facility to optimize the Public Works Department’s ability to provide the City and its residents with the appropriate services in a timely manner, including those required following a natural disaster and/or weather event.
Presentation Information: Staff will be available for questions, or available for a presentation.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council approve the relocation of the New Public Works Building to the Cameo site.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and approve the relocation of the New Public Works Building to the Cameo site.
2. Move that the Council not approve and provide staff direction.
Background: The Public Works Department acts in the capacity of “first responder” for the City of Port St. Lucie. The Department is currently housed in three separate physical locations, which adversely affects the Department’s ability to provide the City with appropriate services following a natural disaster and/or weather event, such as a hurricane. At this time, two of the three independent structures are not “hurricane proof” and none of them can house the entire Public Works Department as a whole.
Issues/Analysis: The existing conditions of both the FPL transmission and distribution lines at the Thornhill Compound have prompted us to reconsider the New Public Works Building location.
• Due to the executed FPL easement on the existing Thornhill Compound, the City would have to pay for these relocations. FPL’s expectations are that two transmission poles and lines will require modification, and 1 new transmission pole will have to be installed at a cost of $500,000 per pole.
• FPL’s preliminary estimates for the distribution line relocation are approximately $500,000
• Additionally, FPL anticipates that here would also be an approximate two-year construction timeframe for these relocations. Therefore, resulting in an approximate two-year delay for the Public Works Building should the location stay at the Thornhill Compound.
Financial Information: If the New Public Works building is relocated to the Cameo site there will be a cost savings to the City of approximately $2 million, and it will avoid additional costs associated with demolition and delays of construction, and from having added costs by keeping a building open during an active construction site. Additionally, by Public Works vacating the Thornhill Compound and no longer tearing down the existing building(s), this allows for the existing building(s) to be repurposed for other City departments.
Special Consideration: This location will allow for better response time since it is centrally located, and it consolidates operations with space for growth.
Location of Project: Cameo Site
Business Impact Statement: N/A
Attachments: 1. Public Works New Building Presentation
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Internal Reference Number: n/a
Legal Sufficiency Review:
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