The Kenai Outdoor Opportunity Location committee produced four potential event space site options and will recommend the allocation of $35,000 in Fiscal Year 2017 to better define scope and costs.
Committee Chair Brian Gabriel says those initial funds would be for the first 35% professional design documents.
“I think the 35 percent design gets you closer to the truer cost estimates of the construction and the phasing so that’s a starting point for the next process.”
The committee will recommend a phased installation approach for the proposed event space in Millennium Square.
At Tuesday’s meeting, City Manager Rick Koch suggested that instead of beginning the phases by building the stage, the city should focus on the complete design of the entire park. The committee agreed.
Gabriel: “What we’ve done is we’ve sort of outlined what we want to present to council, in the format we wanted to do that, sort of taking this document and arranging it how we’d like see it presented to council, delved into some context of the suggestions we’ve made to add and revise the content and then our next meeting we should have close to the final document that we can review.
The committee’s next meeting has been scheduled for 6:30 pm Tuesday, January 26.
