The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is set to award the design contract for Homer’s South Peninsula Hospital expansion at Tuesday night’s meeting.
Assembly members voted overwhelmingly to purchase the Homer Medical Clinic for $435,000 on September 15, as well as appropriate $1,635,000 for a 3,700 square foot expansion of the building.
Borough Mayor Mike Navarre says the $1.6 million should cover the design and construction.
Mayor Navarre: “What will happen next is once we get the design we will get a clearer estimate of what the construction costs will be and then if we decide to go forward with that then the assembly will have to approve the appropriation of funds and the contract for that.”
The hospital had been leasing the Homer Medical Center for approximately $117,000 annually and Mayor Navarre says in the long run the purchase should actually save money.
South Peninsula Hospital CEO Bob Letson previously stated that the clinic where six family practice providers and an OBGYN operate is vital to the hospital.
The expansion design services are set to be awarded to Livingston Slone, a design company out of Anchorage which narrowly beat out Kenai’s K&A Design Studio in the request for proposals.
